8:38am I run over the Charles River Bridge to make it on the bus before it leaves Watertown Yard.

8:39 Run into my brothers friend on the bus

8:40 Get stuck in traffic immediately after turning onto Galen St.

8:42 Bus moves about 6 feet then stops again.

8:44 I tell my brother’s friend that it might have made more sense to take the 70 or 71 bus into Cambridge and then the Red Line into Boston today.

8:46 I look out the window and still see Café Cakes directly next to me. I consider getting off the bus and grabbing something to eat because lord knows the bus I am on is not going to be moving too far from me any time soon.

8:50 still slowly moving up Galen St.

8:58 We finally arrive at Newton Corner where there is a large group of people still waiting for the bus.

8:59 Some guy who was waiting at Newton Corner starts complaining to the bus driver about the long wait. The Bus driver tells him she can’t control the traffic in and points out that no 504 or any other buses have been able to come either because of the traffic. The complaining dude makes a face then walks further into the bus. Despite the somewhat snippy tone they both use, I would say that neither the driver nor the passage went overboard. The passage was most likely frustrated from waiting in the cold for a long time, but the driver was correct that there was not much she could have done about the situation unless she started plowing over cars ala Sandra Bullock in Speed.

9:03 The bus makes it around the pike to the Newton stop. Again a bunch of people are waiting and enter the bus causing the bus to have the sardine can effect.

9:09 So far surprising pretty smooth sailing on the pike.

9:12 Just passed the tolls and still no traffic on the pike

9:16 About to enter Copley when I hear the bus someone from MBTA HQ tell the bus driver over the communication system that their seems to be a lot of in the Watertown area. You think?

9:18 As I get off the bus I wonder how in the world is it possible for there to be little to no traffic on the turn pike but the quarter mile ride from Watertown Yard to Newton Corner to take twenty minutes. Can someone who is an expert in civil engineering or traffic patterns explain this to me?  The entire ride on the Mass Pike was less time then the Galen St. stretch.

9:19 I get off the bus after a somewhat long but not extraordinary long bus ride that had the oddity of 1/20^th of the trip consuming ½ the time and yearn for the weather to return more conducive to me biking into Boston again.