Seattle bus corridor stupid, exacerbates discontentment

This is a travesty of effective transit. My commuter bus has been rerouted here, and there are now seven block stretches where it was apparently impossible to plant a stop. Not surprisingly, it still takes the bus fifteen minutes to travel these seven blocks because it's just inching along behind twelve other buses, all lined up waiting for their turn at that one stop.

The worst thing about this system, though, is that it significantly increases my time spent on 3rd avenue. Not to imply that people with chemical dependency problems and uncheckable violent tendencies are inherently bad company, but 3rd is a seething hotbed of vomiting (yet remarkably confident) crack addicts and gun-wielding fifteen-year-olds, and I kind of don't want to wait for the bus amongst them.

Almost everything I've ever regretted seeing happened on 3rd, including a trash can freely burning to the ground during rush hour, and this man being arrested -- twice. If anything, it should be made into an ambulance corridor, because it's the one place in the city where, regardless of the time, you're almost guaranteed to see someone overdosing. Then when the medics arrive, they're always like, "Hey Loretta, how's it going? Did you accidentally smoke powdered bleach again, or was it just heroin this time?"

If anyone knows where I can get a road bike with a 48cm frame, that would be great.