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Originally posted by jyl
My wife and I have always wanted to live on one of the islands - Bainbridge or Vashon. We have friends on Bainbridge, and I'd rather commute by ferry than sit in traffic.
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Do you like sitting in ferry holding traffic?
The lines on Bainbridge kinda suck. They really aren't enough of a slope to turn your car off and coast forward those few car lengths per minute. Vashon has a nice steep hill . . but only for the last bit.
Whidbey has the best holding lanes . . nice slope (both sides of the water too). But Whidbey is pretty far north, and if you arrive in the morning before the first ferry leaves you will
just make it on to the second ferry of the morning. (well thats how it was for me a few years ago, commuting off Whidbey to Seattle - could be worse now.)
Mercer Island commute sucks when there's a Marineers baseball game. . . .but only if you're commuting from the East-side. . . or want to head into Seattle from MI. I think every eastsider goes to the damn Marineers games. The bridges get clogged onto the island, and off again, headed west to seattle.