Homeless but not Hopeless; Riding the Bus to a Better Future
The bus is a means to a better life for Al Brown. Brown is homeless but not hopeless. He has been homeless for years but that has not determined his outlook on life. Brown is a college student who depends on the bus to move him towards a better future. Whitney Henry-Lester brings us Al’s dispatch alongside Seattle PI photographer, Grant Hindsley. Grant spent the day with Al and captured his commute in photos.
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Route 48 Ride Along
A campaign got route 48 for the Central District and continued advocacy keeps the bus route in business. The Transit Riders Union is very active in ensuring transit justice for all. Yuko Kodama spoke with Transit Riders union General Secretary and Organizer, Katie Wilson.
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The Campaign for Seattle’s Bus Route 48
What many in Seattle know as bus route 48 didn’t always exist. Thanks to the hard work of community organizers and advocates in 1966, Seattle’s Central Area got much needed north-south transportation. Among the leaders who worked on the Crosstown Bus Campaign was Maid Adams of Seattle Congress of Racial Equality or CORE. Adams reflected on what it took to get the route established. Here’s her dispatch.
Here are some links for more information on the Crosstown Bus Campaign
https://seattleinblackandwhite.org/crosstownbus.html
This KBCS story was also featured in the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/commuter/article/The-Campaign-for-Seattle-s-Bus-Route-48-6864130.php
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Finding Love on the Bus
Love is in the air. And maybe at your bus stop. Our WTFlux team went in search of love stories. They met Troy who met his future wife on the bus. They also met Alper and Amanda who’s shared bus route led to their romance. Robbin Block, Yuko Kodama and Mona Yeh produced this segment.
Troy shared the video of his bus proposal to Christy.
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Holly Eckert’s dispatch: Riding with a Disability
We unmute the commute with Holly Eckert. Holly gives her dispatch to Mona Yeh. She also writes about it for the Seattle Times Opinion page.
Eckert’s life was dramatically and forever changed at 34 years of age when she learned she had epilepsy. Her first seizure caused a car accident. It was after this, she decided to stop driving and take the bus.
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Tacoma artist, Lynn DiNino creates bus-themed art
People-watching and gazing out the window are common ways to pass time on the bus. Tacoma artist Lynn Di Nino took this to the next level by creating an art exhibit inspired by her 35 mile long Tacoma-Seattle commute consisting of 3-dimensional portraits of bus riders sitting next to photographs, which are real window scenes taken on the bus. Correspondent Whitney Henry-Lester visited Lynn, here’s her dispatch.
Images of Lynn Di Nino’s show “Riding the Express Bus 594”.
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Why My Family Lives Car-free
Activist and Bus Chick blogger, Carla Saulter made a choice many years ago to live without a car. It’s a choice she’s happy about. It’s a choice she wishes more people could make.
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Bus talk with bus chick, Carla Saulter
We unmute the commute with activist and Bus chick blogger, Carla Saulter. Saulter has been living car free since 2003 along with her husband and two children. Carla’s bus chick blog chronicles the ups and downs of public transit. Correspondent Yuko Kodama rode along with Carla, here’s her dispatch.
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Public transit trends
What’s the Flux?: Commuter Dispatches is a series of stories from our region’s heaviest transit mode, the bus. Senior Producer for the project, Mona Yeh is joined Sonya Green in the KBCS studios to discuss more about the project. She was joined by Mary Jo Porter, partner of the Underhill Company. For the past 40 years, Mary has been involved in countless transportation planning projects in our, including as Deputy Light Rail Director at Sound Transit, preparer of the Seattle Transportation Strategic Plan and Southeast Seattle Multi Modal Plan. Mary Jo provides a snapshot of what’s shaped our current transit system, and recent trends in bus transit.
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WTFlux is on a journey to tell your stories about the joys and struggles of public transportation. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
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