Since my wife and I share a car I’ve started commuting by bus a couple of days a week. I take the Cap Metro 983 which picks me up at an eye-bleeding 6:45am and drops me off 12 miles later at 7:11am. This gets me to my desk (coffee in hand) by 7:20, just in time for the first calls of the day.
All in all the bus is a good deal; it’s on time, clean, does not stop much[1] and relatively cost-effective at a buck fifty either way. A month pass is available but I don’t intend bussing nearly enough to make it worthwhile.

My bus-commute starts with a 5 minute walk from our house in Hyde Park down to Guadalupe and 26th where the 983 scoops me up. From there it’s a sweet 25-minute ride along Guadalupe, 38th, Mopac, Research and Jollyville. The image below links to the whole route strung together.

Why wont Google Maps let me cut through Adams Park?

And of course the killer app in this commute is my iPod and the bleeding sunrise over the Mopac/183 Research interchange stack.

The Mopac 183 stack

Over the few bus trips that I’ve made a weird sort of compilation has started emerging – bus music. The same songs seem to keep on cropping up; a mixture that I won’t even begin to try to describe. Suffice to say that it’s weird and what I’ve noticed is that all the songs are driven by their intro’s. I have this feeling that since the bus ride is quite short and there isn’t much time to scroll around the songs all have to hit their punches quickly.

I’m undertaking to let this compilation take shape over the next few weeks and then post it here, I think I’ll call it 983 over Mopac/183.