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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

they are only on routes 105, 128, 156, 184, and RapidRide F Line

gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

tukwila base here currently has 88 buses but currently never needs more than 40ish buses out at a time (and that's weekday peak). they only run on five routes currently but will likely see more routes in the next service change. they're all in service though, and have been since early february

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

no they're in full service, tukwila base (which is battery-electric only) opened with spring service change, bringing these buses into full service

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it will increase ridership, i've been on plenty of sold out trains that will now be able to seat more people

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

pantograph is an impressive tool, but it is still just working with what the agencies give it (cough skagit, everett, pierce, metro, cough). if ct integrates the data feeds (which hopefully they will do) then yay actually working good gtfs-rt

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

things like wrong stop locations and no published reroute info are issues from the agency's feed and not something that can be fixed by third-parties

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

pantograph infers the correct information and will display everything generally correctly (i.e. actually knowing when a bus is assigned to a run instead of just driving around since this is broken for some reason)

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

its funding, the year-round saturday fast ferries and expanded weekday schedules wete funded by WSDOT because they couldnt keep bremerton service at more than one boat, and it got extended for the world cup. this funding was not renewed by the legislature, and ferry service is very expensive to run

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

they dont have a choice, they lost the funding to operate these frequencies

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i am of the belief that if we can get good integration with boeing, than this deviation will be worth it

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

maybe? the preferred station location is by boeing and seaway tc, not PAE itself

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if connect 2020 hadnt happened, they probably would have sent it to UWS in either the spring (to time with the tunnel closure) or fall 2019 service changes

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

iirc they pushed it back to avoid more link passengers during connect 2020

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

they both serve the same university though? uw station could maybe be renamed to husky stadium but that still omits uw med center and it is a closer walk for parts. and what else could u district be? university street was a holdover from metro, and would have been renamed with north link, but covid

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

however i do love a good robotic voice (see bart, george & gracie, king county metro transit, kate)

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

human voices, if done super well (like community transit, snohomish county WA), its amazing, with the only downside being that only major stops are announced like in the driver announcement days

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

all cascades serving the sea-pdx corridor stop in kelso

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

luckily this wasnt too similar (in terms of timing), during the world cup would have been terrible

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

even then, when link got appled cupped that was because of new trains more crush loaded than what had been tested for, and contractor error in placing the special track slabs/equipment for the uw tunnel. this was a faulty lrv tearing down OCS

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

link needed to go back to shorter trains, there would be more disruptions with every single train out because maintainence would not get done. shorter trains are annoying and crowd, but until there are more lrvs, it will have to happen

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

those are the correct takeaways, seattle is an amazing place, and i think the gatekeeping we do is stupid and we should just build more housing so that more people can move here

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

on 516/519 yes, 518/517 its literally every trip that has a talgo, i've taken 518 like six times now (and seen it many more) and its always a talgo

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

its not a gillig, gilligs have at most around 40 seats, 50 seats is a cutaway or an artic

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

as of sandpoint, yes. shocking 7/27 havent been terminated at spokane yet, so they should still be coming to seattle

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

twitter version 9.6 uses just 991kb of space on my phone, but the lastest version of "X" uses over 400mb, genuinely insane all that extra space taken up for a mecha hitler chatbot

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

they literally get double pay for flipping a switch in the locomotive to switch it from diesel to electric, its an outdated item from when they were two completely different operations that required a lot of different training, but now they dont and its stupid to pay people this way

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

in washington all our inititatives are anti-good things because the first person to really use them was tim eyman, who is an insane anti-good tax person

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

it would be either $18, on a trip starting on metro, using a kitsap fast ferry, and ending on kitsap, since fast ferries dont do free transfers

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

orca tvms have sold day passes since at least december, i dont even have the app and its pretty much all i use

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

never mind straight up get anyone who knows what they're doing in there

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

i 💚🩵💙💜❤️ king county metro transit

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

this cost informed a decision to switch future fleet purchases to diesels instead of hybrids (bebs arent considered good enough for more purchases until 2030)

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

for regular diesel, and R99 is ~$1 extra per gallon

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

yes its bad. my agency was projecting for R99 biodiesel to stay at $3.99/gallon, i've seen fairly regular $6.50 prices

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

2 lines have been struggling with proper destinations since they started crossing the lake

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

what approach is it if i just invest in high-yield savings accounts whenever my credit union offers them to me?

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

they're calling gavin newsom the polititican with the worst political instincts of all time

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

if they copy kcm diesel operations long layovers (20+ minutes) are already normal so it wont affect too much operations wise, but it is incredibly funny how stupid this bus will be

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

also very funnily they'll get enviro500 bebs, a 45ft double-decker bus with such a heavy battery it exceeds normal axle weight limits, and it will still have such bad range that they can only make like three trips before using all their capacity, meaning they'll spend every layover charging

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

somehow sound transit managed to purchase byds in 2024 and will get K11M prototypes this year and full delivery next year

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

interesting, in america our beb options suck because new flyer 100% expects you to fast-charge multiple times a day, especially the XE60s, which max out at under 200mi range w/o hvac. the gillig beb is very good though and very popular for a reason

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

we only have one in-route charger and its a plug-in so bebs can technically get recharged but its just easier to take them out of service like an hour earlier most of the time, we have the diesel/hybrid capacity to cover

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

how large are the batteries in the buses? my local agency can get around 12 hours of urban trips (on a regularly scheduled diesel block) most days from our 588kWh 40ft/12m buses. our older bebs are much better for shuttles though they typically need to go out by mid-afternoon

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

they bought high-floor lrvs in 2019 (they have only low platforms) and they only have a single yard for this huge system so maintenance suffers because they only have like two hours a night with no trains running

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

my school is somehow so randomly evil for being a regional state school

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

but you had a choice we didnt when we built link but you already had subways and you could have built line 5 as such

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

yes we suffer with capacity so much in seattle and we have a mostly grade-seperated system and huge trains. party low floor doesnt work too much space is unusable

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gracie @averyrandomper2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

you've been able to track king county metro buses in real time (including features like being notified when you need to leave to make your bus) since before we invaded iraq

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