Useless Jobs
March 10, 2005 @ 01:28 AMI’ve finally figured out the single most useless job in Seattle… traffic reporters. I mean, common. In fact, I wrote this little application for cell phones called CellFLOW that lets you check Seattle traffic real-time from your phone… and even I don’t use it. Why? Because everyone who’s lived in Seattle knows what traffic here is like.
6am-9am: South-bound: I5 is slow from downtown Everett to 175th, and from Northgate to the ship-canal bridge. 405 is slow off and on from Woodinville into Bellevue. North-bound: I5 is slow through the Southcenter and Boeing field to about downtown. 405 is slow from the I5 interchange, stop and go through the Renton S-curves up to Factoria.
4pm-6:3pm: The Opposite.
There’s always a disabled vehicle mid-span 520, and a truck/car injury accident somewhere on Highway 18.
And for those of you wondering which bridge to take over the water… the answer is ALWAYS I90. 520 is ALWAYS jammed up both directions from 6am-9pm.