{"id":26798,"date":"2017-03-01T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/more-trips-better-reliability-metro-transit-adding-bus-service-march-11\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:30:00","slug":"more-trips-better-reliability-metro-transit-adding-bus-service-march-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/more-trips-better-reliability-metro-transit-adding-bus-service-march-11\/","title":{"rendered":"More trips, better reliability: Metro Transit adding bus service March 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metro Transit is adding more trips and improving service reliability<\/a> beginning March 11 on more than 80 bus routes throughout King County.<\/p>\n

More trips are planned on 35 bus routes to decrease crowding and help meet growing demand, and schedules will be changed on 62 bus routes to improve reliability. About a dozen routes receive funding to address both crowding and reliability challenges.<\/p>\n

The changes deliver the first round of improvements approved in the 2017-2018 budget. Metro Transit’s two-year budget invests $30 million in better service and better schedules, including investments in some transit schedules which provide transit operators with improved restroom access.<\/p>\n

Details are now posted on Metro’s website<\/a> and people can begin preplanning their trips using Metro’s Trip Planner app by entering a travel date of March 11 or later. Changes are also included in a Rider Alert brochure and new teal-colored timetables that will be distributed on buses and at customer service locations in coming days.<\/p>\n

Service improvement highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n

• Additional investments to complement Sound Transit’s Link light rail service to UW, including more frequent evening service on Routes 65 and 67 and more frequent Sunday service on Routes 8 and 372.<\/p>\n

• Additional peak period trips on routes to and from South Lake Union, including routes 5, 8, 26, 28, 40, 62, 63 and 70.<\/p>\n

• Additional peak period trips on Burien express Route 121.<\/p>\n

• Additional peak period trips on I-90 express routes 212, 216 and 218.<\/p>\n

Metro Transit route change details<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Comprehensive descriptions are on Metro’s Service Change website<\/a>. Some routes are listed twice below as they have both added trips and schedule changes.)<\/p>\n

• Routes with both added trips and schedule changes (11 routes): 5, 15E, 17E, 18E, 21E, 41, 101, 121, 158, 271, RapidRide E line<\/p>\n

• Routes with added trips (35 routes) to address crowding: 5, 8, 15E, 17E, 18E, 21E, 26E, 28E, 31, 32, 40, 41, 60, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 74, 75, 101, 121, 158, 212, 216, 218, 255, 257, 271, 311, 346, 355, 372 and the RapidRide C and E lines<\/p>\n

• Routes with schedule changes (62 routes) to address reliability: 5, 9E, 15E, 17E, 18E, 21E, 22, 29, 37, 41, 55, 57, 60, 64, 83, 84, 99, 101, 102, 111, 113, 114, 119E, 121, 122, 123, 128, 143, 148, 150, 153, 157, 158, 159, 164, 168, 177, 180, 182, 187, 192, 193E, 197, 217, 219, 221, 232, 244, 246, 252, 269, 271, 303E, 304, 308, 309E, 312E, 330, 331, 345, 355E and the RapidRide E Line<\/p>\n

• Route 907\/ Black Diamond – Enumclaw Community Ride: Route 907, a Dial-A-Ride Transit service, will no longer operate between Black Diamond and Enumclaw so that service can be improved to hourly on a busier stretch between Black Diamond and Renton. The southern segment of Route 907 will be replaced by the Black Diamond – Enumclaw Community Ride, a reservation-based alternative service between the two communities. The Community Ride will also serve areas of Enumclaw and Black Diamond that have been served by the 907. Reservations by calling 1-866-261-3278 (voice) or 1-800-246-1646 (TTY) or online at https:\/\/www.hopelink.org\/need-help\/transportation\/dart-ride-request<\/p>\n

• Extending Routes 3 and 4 to Seattle Pacific University: Routes 3 and 4 will be extended to better serve customers heading to and from Seattle Pacific University, and connect with routes 31 and 32 to Fremont and the U District, and improve restroom access for Metro transit operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metro Transit is adding more trips and improving service reliability<\/a> beginning March 11 on more than 80 bus routes throughout King County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":26799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}