The Pursuit of a Bus Pass ...

The Pursuit of a Bus Pass ...

Okay, the printed bus schedules say that buses come every X # of minutes, but they never do. What happens is long stretches of time pass with no buses and then a couple appear back to back with one bus totally packed and the other(s) empty ... eventually you get where you are going and get off the bus at the Bellevue Transit Center ...

So, you go to buy a bus pass at the Bellevue Transit Center, which makes sense since there is a building labeled "Rider Services" and a booth in the middle of the transit center that is manned during the day ...

The "Rider Services" room is unmanned and basically a couple maps and a bunch of bus schedules ...

The manned booth in the midst of all of the buses does not sell bus passes ... the guy sitting there just gets a little ticked that you ask him when one of the 9 or so fliers posted in one of the glass windows indicates that you have to go somewhere else to purchase your pass ... What does he actually do? So, at NEITHER place at the Bellevue Transit Center can you actually buy a bus pass ...

Why? Because that would be easy and make sense since that is where riders all end up ...

No, you have to go several blocks to a Bartell's or a QFC to buy a bus pass because that service is farmed out ...

Yes, I went and got a pass at Bartell's ...

(Being exasperated, I sent what essentially became this posting to friends and discovered that it is virtually the same for ferry passes ...)