learn more about these proposed changes and take Metro’s survey by Feb. 28<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe proposed improvements include:<\/p>\n
• Adding new bus connections to future Link light rail stations.<\/p>\n
• Adding service throughout the day and week, including more early morning, midday, late-night, and weekend trips.<\/p>\n
• New bus service on Saturdays and Sundays in Burien.<\/p>\n
• New bus service on Sundays between Kent and Federal Way.<\/p>\n
• Providing frequent service on important east-west connections across the area.<\/p>\n
• Launching two new Metro Flex on-demand pilot services in Federal Way and Auburn that take people to any destination in the service areas and provide connections to major transit centers.<\/p>\n
• Updating bus routes between West Federal Way and Downtown Federal Way to make connections quicker, more direct, and easier to navigate.<\/p>\n
• Removing some commuting routes between south King County and Downtown Seattle to avoid overlap with light rail and to invest those resources into enhancing all-day services.<\/p>\n
These proposals are part of a collaborative process that includes feedback from community, project stakeholders and other partners, according to Metro. This feedback helps develop proposed changes to Metro service that meet residents’ transportation needs when new light rail stations open as early as 2026.<\/p>\n
As Metro prepares its next steps for improving the transit network in South King County, public input will be used by the agency about these potential changes to create a final transit service proposal for community review.<\/p>\n
Online open houses are set for noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Jan. 7; 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25 and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10.<\/p>\n
For more information, go to https:\/\/king-county-south-link.webflow.io\/?lng=en<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agency plans to make changes in South King County as light rail opens in 2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":71537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71536"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}