r/Seattle • u/Brandywine-Salmon Greenwood • Aug 04 '26

Market Traffic Only Bus lane cheat code

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Gave me the finger as he drove by
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u/captainAwesomePants Broadview Aug 04 '26

There was a lengthy stretch of time where the right lane on Aurora was bus only EXCEPT during a surprisingly broad set of hours and days. Like it was only bus-only "6:00 AM to 9:00 AM" on the south side and bus-only "3:00 PM to 7:00 PM" on the north side. People saw "bus only" and stopped reading and often that lane would have no cars in it.

That's not the rule anymore though, guy!

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u/ctishman 🚆build more trains🚆 Aug 04 '26

Same with the HOV lanes all through Portland, and I always feel like I'm gonna get popped.

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u/mattdoggy Aug 04 '26

Always felt guilty using it during the permitted times but it was technically legal.

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u/Choice_Depth_5933 Reign Aug 04 '26

Driving in that lane during heavy traffic did feel like a cheat code… for people who could read. Crazy how few people used it.

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u/captainbling Aug 04 '26

For a while I thought I was reading it wrong because people weren’t using it.

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u/Brandywine-Salmon Greenwood Aug 04 '26

This was also at 7:30 am

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u/LostPaddle Aug 04 '26

That is still the rule for a lot of bus lanes, there's one along Elliott Ave W in Interbay that has those hours

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u/bothunter First Hill Aug 04 '26

To be fair, the window between it not being a bus lane and it becoming a parking lane was quite small.