In the meanwhile, here are a few more bicycle-on-the-Link-Light-Rail pics.
Here's the scene from this morning's commute. See my bicycle hanging in the foreground on the left?
Here's a bunch of empty bicycle lockers at the Sodo Station. Interesting that you can see into them. What's the thinking there?
Bike Route alongside the station. Only goes one block the direction I went: South.
The Sodo Station art features a gateway comprised of a beam, a level (on top), a red "carpenter's" pencil vertically on the left, and a square on the top right!
Written on the pencil is: "Made in U.S.A. Union".
Back in my bricklaying days, we called those pencils "Brickie Pencils". Why give the wood butchers credit?
Just kidding! Just a little craft rivalry humor. Got ya!
In the end the joke was on me. I tried to pick up this hammer wondering whether it was left over from some construction project. Nah! This again, including the benches in the background, is at the Sodo Station in the industrial part of town. There are tools on the benches too. They don't move. They are art. Got me!
If you look carefully in the gateway photo, you'll see an arc "scribed" into the pavers by the pencil, much as you'd do to draw a circle with a compass. It all makes my little mason's heart flutter.
Keep it plumb and square,
CurioRando
I know why you can see into the bike lockers. Back when I worked at the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, I got to know various folks at Sound Transit, including some of the planners. The see-thru lockers are partly a reaction to 9/11 and partly an effort to keep them from becoming non-bike storage lockers. A few years ago, Metro had to evict a homeless person who was living out of a bike locker.
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