Trying out Public Transportation

I was trying a public transportation in one form or another in the last week. Mostly I was using Microsoft provided shuttle buses. These buses are designed for carrying people from one building to another with the exception of a connector. The connector is a network of luxury coaches for getting to and from work. Microsoft also provides a free pass for all kinds of public transportation. Needless to say, public transit is scarce. There is a bus which stops at a walking distance from my home at Redmond Educational Hill  and goes directly to the downtown Bellevue where I work. The very first outgoing bus of a day makes a stop at 5am and the last one stops at 8am. Clearly, this doesn't work for me. The remaining option is to take a connector and then a shuttle. This takes an hour, while driving takes 20 minutes. I really miss subways in Moscow. Tomorrow I'm going to try biking to work. Another thing to try would be to get one of the vanpool vans. King county provides a van for people who would like to carpool. The van includes maintenance and gas. And the cost is covered my the Microsoft bus pass. I have at least 4 other Microsoft friends living nearby.