Seattle’s Bus Chick on the Rewards of the Riding Life
Carla Saulter pens a very eclectic blog called Bus Chick, Transit Authority, which you can find on the Seattle Post Intelligencer's website.
Carla, who lives car-free with her husband and young daughter, is all about riding transit and inspiring others to do the same. The bus has indeed figured prominently in her life: she met her husband on the bus; riding has provided her with a creative outlet for stories and interesting anecdotes; and she named her first child for the most renowned bus rider in history.
I was bowled over when I heard that Carla actually went by bus to give birth at the hospital (not to mention to also come home afterward). I knew then and there that I needed to profile her. I just wish I lived closer to the Bus Chick family so I could ride the bus with them more often.
I would love to be car-free, but public transit in the Hampton Roads Area of Virginia is abysmal. We are getting light rail, but I'm not sure that will be enough. Its really nice to visit cities that have a very developed public transit system such as New York, DC or Chicago.
Thanks for sharing the video.
This is great!! Bus Nerd and Bus Chick are the coolest!
Awesome.
Awesome story. Thanks for taking the time to profile her, Clarence!
I think this is a great thing here it isn't a reality in my city. The bus system here is overloaded, late and not efficient. Mostly it travels North/south and not east/west which I live more or less west of my work. If only I had a bus system like this one. It is a dream and seeing it makes me more depressed about the city transit here.
This is a very cool little flick. I just posted it on The Oregonian's commuting blog in Portland. Thanks.
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Bus Chick is clearly being the change she wants to see in the world. She must be a person of great patience and I commend her for her contribution to improving Seattle's atrocious transit landscape.
Go Bus Chick.
Glad to see that Bus Chick's blog survived the sad downsizing/conversion to Web-only for the Seattle P-I.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/buschick/
I was a fairly car-free Seattleite before moving to Valencia, Spain where I have been without internal combustion for three years. I have always been more bike boy than metro boy but I always have a transit card in my wallet just in case. One thing that always makes me smile here in Spain is seeing little kids taking the subway to the beach with their parents, complete with pails, shovels, soccer balls, and all of the other paraphernalia required for a day on the water.
Keep up the good work. Cars were a huge mistake of the 20th century. The sooner we fix that the better.