Comments on: Metro Reroutes for Friday Morning’s Procession

By: Metro Service Alerts - Seattle Transit Blog

Metro Service Alerts - Seattle Transit Blog — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:02:15 +0000

[...] with the public was during Tim Brenton’s memorial procession. Sherwin put together a simple but effective list of routes and their associated re-routes. The Seattle Times linked directly to his post, not to Metro’s [...]

By: Adam B. Parast

Adam B. Parast — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:34:52 +0000

Maybe they could only book the key arena today?

By: Oran Viriyincy

Oran Viriyincy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:41:36 +0000

Score a point for University Link!

An unrelated anecdote: It took me 4 minutes of walking from Westlake Station’s platforms to catch the 43. If U-Link were open I’d be at my destination already (which happens to be near the future Capitol Hlll station).

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:28:06 +0000

I completely agree. Seattle is a young city so we haven’t figured these things out yet.

It is completely unprofessional to shut down a commute into a major city because of poor planning, processions, or even an afternoon Mariner’s game. Seriously, every time there was an afternoon baseball game this summer no busses moved on 3rd Av for over an hour during the evening commute, and 1st Ave was complete gridlock for cars and busses. As if the convenience of 30,000 fans outweights more than 200,000 downtown workers…

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:21:49 +0000

One comment: Grade separated transit!

I took the Monorail to cross Denny this monring at 9:45. No delays or reroutes…

Cities with subways systems don’t get shut down from processions or parades.

By: John Jensen

John Jensen — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:51:39 +0000

Not everything is about PR.

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:43:19 +0000

I note with interest that this debacle happened while Greg Nickels and Pat Davis are still in office. And I suspect that is not a coincidence!!

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:22:59 +0000

Chris,

The man can be honored without f-ing up the city for a day. All it would take is some thought. Now I’ll bet there are many cursing the police today. Great PR!!

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:21:33 +0000

I am so glad I had today off – this was inexcusably bad on KCM’s part. Is there such a vacuum of leadership and awareness that with 48+ hours to plan for this event, they could not have done a better job? Comparisons to the Snowpocalypse would be unfair, but…

This event does also warrant discussion of the need for a more “standarized” format for these kinds of events, and perhaps even a limitation to the weekends – includes parades, airshows and much more. As a “grown up” city we can and must do better at these kinds of events, allowing those who must celebrate/mourn the space and time to do so, but without inconveniencing 25% of more of the rest of the populace.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:59:59 +0000

Were there any buses IN the procession? It would be nice if non-drivers could join the procession.

By: Sherwin Lee

Sherwin Lee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:20:06 +0000

Not to mention the fact that some reroutes were not even posted until after the procession started.

It’s true that Metro rider alerts are just not user-friendly in general. To the common transit rider, it takes a good racking of the brain to figure out the detour.

By: John Jensen

John Jensen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:55 +0000

To be more specific, every single press release told people to go the main page of Metro and not once did Metro’s main page actually feature information about these reroutes.

The actual reroutes didn’t have maps, but terse driver instructions. Riders had no chance of getting clear information. A very reactionary response from Metro.

By: John Jensen

John Jensen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:57 +0000

Metro did a terrible job of preparing for this. Terrible.

By: Chris Stefan

Chris Stefan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:45:49 +0000

I think the procession for Mark McLaughlin was on a Saturday so it would have made some sense to hold the services for Officer Brenton tomorrow. Besides if the services had been on a weekend I might have stood on the route to honor Officer Brenton.

By: Chris Stefan

Chris Stefan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:42:48 +0000

If you have to ask it is clear you don’t understand.

Many fellow officers and firefighters as well as ordinary citizens want to honor an officer who was gunned down in a senseless assassination.

By: octopus

octopus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:25:05 +0000

I wanted to say that I just came back from the UW start of the procession and it was quite moving.

I also wanted to say that I saw a Metro bus full of mourners and an operators name across the front (Rodriguez? maybe ) a couple of months ago heading down 35th Ave NE to Calvary cemetery as part of a funeral procession. Can anyone shed light on that particular event, as I didn’t realize that Metro did that…

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:07 +0000

Well, now the rest are posted, just in time. I guess I was wrong about them letting a few routes cross at Aurora and Dexter, because now I see them via, Eastlake. And there is the Queen Anne Shuttles. The only thing is the temp turnback for trolleys @ Broad st, becuase there isn’t one. I guess the only way, is they drop to passengers @ Cedar NB, then get pushed around the block by Atlantic 1, the wrecker, or some shop trucks.

By: Squints

Squints — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:13:41 +0000

Why not do it on a saturday?

By: Phil Mocek

Phil Mocek — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:05 +0000

Why couldn’t they have simply started at Key Arena? In a typical funeral procession, you have people moving from the funeral home to the cemetery. If I understand correctly, such is not the case here, and this procession is all for show. Why are we doing this?

By: kyonko

kyonko — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:57:35 +0000

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