On a Monday, at 9:31 a.m., Metro's No. 7 bus slid to a stop on Rainier Avenue South and South Edmunds Street. Three side doors opened, but passengers, paying their fares as they entered, climbed on only through the front. The doors whooshed closed. The bus trundled down Rainier.
At South Andover Street, Joy Estill boarded, tapping her Orca card on the reader near the fare box. Walking down the aisle she passed a sign on the wall behind the driver, its first two words in reverse type on a field of orange:
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