Thread by @spurnagain

BUS PARADE! Celebrating the inaugural ride of new Route 85 with @ancpeoplemover! 🚏Downtown 🚌 🚏West Anc 🚌 🚏Loussac Library 🚌 🚏 Dimond Center Mall! #ANCgov

Also, this is definitely the cleanest city bus system I've used! And the best name "People Mover"

Like the old Route 36, Route 85 will head through Turnagain and serve part of West Anc that current routes don't serve.
(yes, I'm live tweeting a bus ride)

You could take the bus to Rustic Goat, the Library and Dimond Mall!

I'll wave at my house, that I just left in order to drive to catch the bus 😂

Sat on the wrong side for sight seeing. There goes Lake Hood, on to Spenard Road and Midtown!

Now heading to Midtown, on 36th to the library. Cook Inlet Housing looking good!

Lots of new buildings going up on 36th, looking good!

Just passed the library! A couple people waved. About 30 minutes ride from Downtown, for reference.

Now we're turning from Denali to 40th, heading toward Old Seward.

University Mall. You could take this route to the DMV. Or order furniture, for delivery at least 😂

Going past every car sales & rental place in town, it seems, on Old Seward. #zoning

Peanut Farm! Sports are probably happening! You can take the bus to sports.

We're at the mall already, just another 15 minutes from the library! Also, these pictures are terrible, but also it's hard to make, like, a hundred strip malls in a row look scenic, guys.

We made it to the Dimond Center in 45 minutes from Downtown! Mall to mall in less than an hour, teenagers take note. (Do the kids still go to the mall these days? I was never young)

Heading back downtown the way we came! And also, Anchorage has a place (still) called Y2K Liquor #neverforget

Totally empty parking lot at ABC RV Rentals... Are they closed, or is the RV shortage still happening in a big way?

Back to the library! You can take the bus to a movie, too! Actually, two different theaters, come to think of it. If you do a late night movie, check the schedule to make sure it's still running when it you get out! (Do we have 24 service here, I don't know)

Bus ride & bowling! Center Bowl is a Spenard classic.

Almost back downtown!

Past my favorite little building, Cafe 817 & the Muffin Man!

And, back downtown at noon as promised! Fun little ride this morning.

Thanks for "riding" this thread along the new Route 85 with the bus parade! Thanks @ancpeoplemover for expanding service. The route *actually* starts Monday, Sep 20! 🚏🚌 #ANCgov

@anchlibrary !

@dimondcenter

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Sadly Center Bowl is not on Twitter, irl only.

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The three big economic centers of Anchorage: @ANCdowntown , Midtown (home of @anchlibrary), and the retail & industrial corridor of Dimond-Abbott (home of @dimondcenter)! 🚏🚌🚏🚌🚏