i thought about grabbing just "bolt" as my url on here but i feel like that will only invite further comparisons to the 2008 animated john travolta comedy



nothing will radicalize you in favor of public transit faster than actually driving around, especially in a car-first area.

today i decided to go down to the issaquah salmon hatchery to see all the salmon coming home for the year, so after i finished with an errand i drove down there because there was no public transit options on a weekend that wouldn't have added 90+ minutes. when i got there, it turned out today was a festival day in issaquah. cool! why not make it a festival visit too!

except in practice this meant that every single parking spot in a multi-mile radius was taken (both on-street and off-street), and because the town was not designed to have people take over main boulevards it was nightmare traffic all around. google proceeded to steer me into a dead end multiple times. eventually i just gave up and went home because there was simply no way for me to get from a car to the festival or hatchery short of circling in bumper-to-bumper traffic indefinitely hoping i caught someone leaving a parking space.

the eta for light rail coming to issaquah is currently 2044.


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