The freelance interpreter got a call that a sign-language interpreter was needed for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s press conference Tuesday morning. The mayor's office needed to brief the public on the city's response to an expected blast of cold, snowy weather.

But Gault ran — literally — into layers of Seattle's transportation disruptions. Such disruptions included the icy weather and transit construction projects.

Gault said he tried to take a Lyft from his building in South Lake Union, but the app told him there’d be a long wait. So he decided to run to the light rail station at Westlake.

“I ran to Westlake, and then I got a message saying they want you there at 10 a.m., not 10:30 a.m.,” Gault said.

The light rail line through Seattle is currently on a modified schedule as crews work on a new connection to the East Link line. The project is slated to take 10 weeks and has trains running every 12 minutes instead of the usual six minutes.