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King County voters authorized Metro to buy Metropolitan and operate the county's mass transit bus system. [ citation needed ] Metro Transit introduced its new services in September 1973, including a ride-free area in downtown and express routes on freeways (known as "Flyer" routes), [ 11 ] and a unified numbering scheme in 1977 that replaced ...
King County Metro is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, including the city of Seattle in the Puget Sound region. It operates a fleet of 1,396 buses, serving 115 million rides at over 8,000 bus stops in 2012, making it the eighth-largest transit agency in the United States.
In 1978, Metro was the first large transit agency to order high-capacity articulated buses (buses with a rotating joint). [11] Today, King County Metro has one of the largest articulated fleets in North America (second only to MTA New York City Transit) and articulated buses account for about 42% of the agency's fleet. [12]
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A King County Metro trolleybus on route 36 passing through the International District en route to Othello station. This is a list of current routes operated by the mass transit agency King County Metro in the Greater Seattle area. It includes routes directly operated by the agency, routes operated by contractors and routes operated by King ...
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RapidRide is a network of limited-stop bus routes with some bus rapid transit features in King County, Washington, operated by King County Metro.The network consists of eight routes totaling 76 miles (122 km) that carried riders on approximately 64,860 trips on an average weekday in 2016, comprising about 17 percent of King County Metro's total daily ridership.
South Sammamish Park and Ride is the city's transit center with 265 parking stalls. Metro began running dial-a-ride buses to the Sammamish Plateau in 1993, [35] and it later extended commuter services in the early 2000s. [36] The King County government completed construction of an 11-mile (18 km) bike trail on the east side of Lake Sammamish in ...