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Metro - Seattle to Microsoft?

onidavinonidavin Registered User regular
edited August 2010 in PAX Archive
Hi PAX friends! On Friday morning I need to get down to Redmond to visit with Microsoft. I figure the best way to get there is via the metro? I was looking at this route to get me there, and then just catch the express on the way back. Is this sensible?

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  • HeleorHeleor SeattleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Is this for an interview or for something else? Because if it's for an interview, they send a car or you can expense a taxi... :P

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  • onidavinonidavin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Not quite an interview, not quite something else. Informal tour of the workplace/lab, basically :)

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  • AlloweiAllowei Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    That looks about right.

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  • aragorn18aragorn18 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The 545 is indeed the best route to get from downtown to the eastside (where Microsoft lives) and back. But, don't worry about that little transfer to 221. 545 is run by Sound Transit and the 221 is run by King County Metro. Unfortunately, Sound Transit doesn't do transfer slips. So, you'd have to pay another full fare just to ride the 1/2 mile on that last little segment. Just hoof it from where 545 drops you off on the highway to wherever you're going.

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  • onidavinonidavin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Am I able to cross under the highway or such? Thanks :D I noticed it drops me off really close to where I want to be.

    Edit: Ah, looks like there's a bridge I can go under if I head north a touch.

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  • aragorn18aragorn18 Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    onidavin wrote: »
    Am I able to cross under the highway or such? Thanks :D I noticed it drops me off really close to where I want to be.

    Edit: Ah, looks like there's a bridge I can go under if I head north a touch.
    Walk north to the 40th St. bridge. The bridge goes OVER the highway. Then, walk down 150th Ave to get to where you're going.

    Are you headed to building 92?

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  • onidavinonidavin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    aragorn18 wrote: »
    onidavin wrote: »
    Am I able to cross under the highway or such? Thanks :D I noticed it drops me off really close to where I want to be.

    Edit: Ah, looks like there's a bridge I can go under if I head north a touch.
    Walk north to the 40th St. bridge. The bridge goes OVER the highway. Then, walk down 150th Ave to get to where you're going.

    Are you headed to building 92?

    Sure am. INFERENCES! MIND-READING! Thanks for the help :)

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  • jaberwockynmtjaberwockynmt PAX Info Booth Manager Renton, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    MS has free campus shuttles. Just to the left of where it has you getting on the 221, look for a guy with a radio dispatching vans. Just tell him what building you need to go to and he'll put you on the right vehicle; you'll end up there. You don't need to show a badge or be an employee or anything like that.

    If you're going to B92, after your meeting, you can walk on sidewalks ~straight from A to B (A is the main door of B92 and B is where the 545 to Seattle picks you up; ignore the roundabout route Google gives).

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  • onidavinonidavin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    jaberwockynmt wrote: »
    MS has free campus shuttles. Just to the left of where it has you getting on the 221, look for a guy with a radio dispatching vans. Just tell him what building you need to go to and he'll put you on the right vehicle; you'll end up there. You don't need to show a badge or be an employee or anything like that.

    If you're going to B92, after your meeting, you can walk on sidewalks ~straight from A to B (A is the main door of B92 and B is where the 545 to Seattle picks you up; ignore the roundabout route Google gives).

    It keeps getting better! Thanks! I am jealous of this fancy system of "public transit." Here in Florida we just have "you get heat stroke and die."

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