I was just checking out Seattle news and came across a story about a Pierce County Transit bus that got into a very scary looking accident in Tacoma during today's snow storm. Here is a link to the story on Kiro's website: http://www.kirotv.com/video/25880837/index.html, the link to the regular story is: http://www.kirotv.com/weather/25850281/detail.html.
I've been on C-Tran buses that have wiped out bus shelters, in fact I've heard that one incident in particular to a TriMet shelter on Sandy Blvd., led to TriMet telling C-Tran our buses wouldn't be allowed in Portland unless they started chaining them up.
To those of you new to C-Tran and the metro area. Many years ago it was an old joke that C-Tran only actually owned about 10 pairs of chains for the entire fleet. They just hated chaining up their buses. You would get some very treacherous and dangerous conditions but they were quite stubborn. Between ATU 757 and TriMet, they now not only have chains for all of their buses, but that automated system where you just push a button and the bus is changed up is pretty cool.
No snow here in Portland as of now!
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