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From Matt Goyer's blog, some changes are happening to the express bus from downtown Seattle to Redmond:

* 545 will run every 10 minutes during peak
* New eastbound 545 stop at Bellevue & Olive [...]
* New 58 seat busses

Also...

[...] Ian reports that his friend (who works on Seattle traffic timing) recently convinced the Redmond traffic folks to change the signal timing at the 40th st exit on the 520. Apparently it was off a bit and that was causing those long backups.

Besides the most obvious reasons, this is particularly great for me because:

• Less waiting during connections when I'm downtown, due to transfer timings where I usually miss the earlier bus by a few minutes
• More likely to get bike rack space in the summer when I skip the downtown connection altogether and just bike to the Montlake freeway bus stop :)

Yes, I know this is absolutely irrelevant to most of my current readers. But I whittles what I sees.