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Bus Chick (Carla Saulter)
Carla Saulter is one of a growing number of Seattleites who have chosen to live without a car. Because Seattle still does not have in-city rapid transit, she takes the bus everywhere — really, everywhere — she goes. (On any given Saturday night, you can find her running for the 27 in heels and a backless dress.)
Though she gave up driving because of concerns about the detrimental effects of car culture (pollution, traffic, sprawl), the decision has profoundly and positively changed her life. Some of these positive changes include: enforced exercise, time to read, reduced expenses, and contact with her community on a level that would never have been possible in the isolated bubble of a single-occupancy vehicle.
Carla is a third-generation Seattleite (on her dad's side) and lives with her car-free husband and infant daughter in an historic home in the Central District. Aside from two years in Morocco and eight in Houston, she has lived in Seattle all her life.
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Recent entries
· Speaking of the future...
· Some of my best friends drive cars
· Your bus is pwned
· Speaking of trickling...
· Trickle down
· Performance anxiety
· Speaking of bus drivers...
· June Golden Transfer
RSS/Web feeds (help)
VISITOR'S PASS
· Blog intro
About Bus Chick
· buschick.com
· Bus Chick's Manifesto
· You know you're a bus chick if...
· Frequently asked questions
· A bus-based union
· Busing with a baby (audio)
· The making of a bus chick
· 10 billion trips in 2006 (video)
Past posts
· On busing and belief
· Too sexy for my car
· How not to impress a bus chick
· One spare tire begets another
· The Busfather: "He'll get you there."
· A special guest star
· Location, location, location
· A bus chick by any other name...
· Someday my bus will come
· Montlake Freeway Station spoken word
· Flexin' for the weekend
· Bussin' it in the Motor City
· Bus to brover's birfday
· Overheard on the 48
· A shared ride
· Transit-inspired language
· Out with the old...
Bus Riding, 101
· A bus rider's glossary
· Bus-chick-friendly neighborhoods
· To market, to market
· Car-free shopping
· On the bus, looking fabulous
· Bus fouls
· Bus chick preparedness
· A bus to the pass
· Car-free night life
TRANSFERS
· City of Seattle's One Less Car Challenge
· An expensive habit, part I
· An expensive habit, part II
Transit agencies (etc.)
· King County Metro
· Sound Transit
· Community Transit
· Pierce Transit
· Kitsap Transit
· Washington State Ferries
· Statewide transit links
· Nationwide transit links
· Amtrak Cascades
· Zipcar
Tools
· BC Car-Free
· Hike Metro!
· Location-efficient mortgages
· Metro Trip Planner
· Metro Tracker
· MyBus
· Spotbus
· Seattle Bus Monster
Advocacy organizations
· American Public Transportation Association
· Carbusters
· Carfree Seattle
· Feet First
· Transportation Choices Coalition
Blogs, etc.
· Alan Durning: The Year of Living Carlessly
· Bus Haiku
· Cars Are Evil (Portland)
· Carfree Network, USA
· Carless in Seattle
· City Transit Advocates
· Friends of Seattle
· Muni Manners (San Francisco)
· Portland Transport
· Seattle Transit Blog
· Street Films (New York)
· That Baby is Cold (San Francisco)
· Transitman
· Trimetiquette (Portland)
Bus reading
· The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God: And Other Stories, by Etgar Keret
· Car-Free Cities, by J.H. Crawford
· CARtoons, by Andy Singer
· The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
· How to Live Well without Owning a Car, by Chris Balish
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