{"id":9175,"date":"2015-09-28T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/permit-parking-coming-to-kent-station-next-year-for-train-commuters\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:30:37","slug":"permit-parking-coming-to-kent-station-next-year-for-train-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/permit-parking-coming-to-kent-station-next-year-for-train-commuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Permit parking coming to Kent Station next year for train commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Train commuters who park at the Kent Station garage<\/a> will be able to get permits starting in the fall of 2016.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Sound Transit Board on Sept. 24 approved a new program to offer reserved parking permits at its busiest facilities to frequent transit riders. The goal of the program is to make limited parking resources more efficient while guaranteeing parking availability to many regular riders and to those who frequently carpool to the park-and-ride lots, according to a Sound Transit media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The program will be in place for carpoolers at 10 of Sound Transit\u2019s busiest facilities, including Kent, by fall of 2016.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made a sizable regional investment in park and rides over the past twenty years, but all too often people arrive only to find them full,\u201d said Sound Transit Board Chair and King County Executive Dow Constantine. \u201cThis program will better manage that investment to improve access to trains and buses, especially for frequent commuters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Detailed information about the program is available at soundtransit.org\/permitparking<\/a>\u200b.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sound Transit tested permits during a 2014 pilot project and collected further input this summer on the next steps toward making the program permanent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The permits could be available to those who carpool to transit lots as early as fall of 2016 and later be available to solo drivers by late 2016 or early 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The board approved a permit fee of $5 a month for carpools of at least two transit riders. The fee for solo drivers will be set later on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the permit system will work:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 Transit customers must have and use a valid ORCA card to apply for a permit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 Permit parking areas would be reserved for permit holders through morning rush hour Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 On weekends and after morning rush hour on weekdays, transit riders would be able to park in permit spaces without a permit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 Renewal would require the permit holder\u2019s ORCA records to show they rode transit at least three times per week during the previous permit term. Flexibility will be allowed for time away (such as vacation).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 Carpool permit holders must arrive with at least two transit riders in the permitted vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 At least 50 percent of parking spaces at each location would remain free and available for transit riders on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Locations for the permit program will include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Angle Lake Station (light rail, opening 2016)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Auburn Station<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Federal Way Transit Center<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Issaquah Transit Center<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kent Station<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mercer Island Park-and-Ride<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Overlake Transit Center<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Puyallup Station<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sumner Station<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tukwila International Boulevard Station (light rail)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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