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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 ...
The Madison Street corridor was identified as a bus rapid transit candidate in the 2012 Transit Master Plan, adopted by the city of Seattle with input from King County Metro. [18] While other routes were given feasibility studies for streetcars, as part of a new municipal system, Madison Street was considered too steep to support rail transit. [19]
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 ...
It is operated by King County Metro and uses bus rapid transit features, including transit signal priority, exclusive lanes, and off-board fare payment at some stations. The H Line began service on March 18, 2023, replacing Route 120 after the construction of new stations and bus lanes at a cost of $154 million. [1]
In early 2013 King County Metro began construction on new enhanced bus stops, new bus stations and making upgrades to traffic signals along Aurora Ave N. [10] Service on the RapidRide E Line was scheduled to start in Fall 2013 but the opening was delayed until February 15, 2014, to give crews more time to finish construction.
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.
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.
The B Line is one of eight RapidRide lines (routes with some bus rapid transit features) operated by King County Metro in King County, Washington.The B Line began service on October 1, 2011, [2] running between downtown Redmond, Overlake and downtown Bellevue.