Seattle bus drivers are fucking homies and absolute comrades in my experience, I spent some time couch surfing/semi-homeless in the U district in my early 20s and other than close friends that let me stay with them and family restaurant/café owners that gave me something on the house in exchange for helping them clean up a bit, transit workers were by far the most sympathetic and kind public servants I encountered. SPD were fucking stormtroopers, city officials were basically useless, but bus drivers were some of the nicest strangers I ever met outside of gay bartenders in cap hill.