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Sound Transit contracts with the King County Sheriff's Office for policing services, which includes patrolling transit facilities, monitoring traffic, and responding to emergency incidents. [279] The transit police unit of the Sheriff's Office was created in 2008 to prepare for the launch of light rail service in Seattle. [280]
(The Center Square) – Sound Transit’s expansion into east King County will continue with two new stations in the city of Redmond set to open in May. Starting on May 10, travelers on Sound ...
Sound Transit Express (ST Express) is a network of regional express buses, operated by the multi-county transit agency, Sound Transit. The routes connect major regional hubs throughout 53 cities in three counties ( King , Pierce , and Snohomish ) in the Puget Sound region .
Routes in this series are Sound Transit Express routes with the exception of Pierce Transit routes 500 and 501 serving Federal Way. This list shows the routes Metro operates under contract to Sound Transit, [5] it does not include routes operated by Community Transit or Pierce Transit (who operates some routes solely within King County).
The lone exception is King County Executive Dow Constantine, who also serves as a board member for Sound Transit. During the Sound Transit Executive Special Meeting, Constantine confirmed he is ...
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[80] [81] King County Metro is the sole metropolitan county transit agency in Washington and is authorized by the state legislature to collect a sales tax of 0.9 percent across King County. [82] [83] Prior to the 1999 approval of Initiative 695, the agency also collected a motor vehicle excise tax from the state government. [84]
Following the failed Forward Thrust initiatives, Metro Transit was created in 1972 to oversee a countywide bus network, and plan for a future rail system. [14] In the early 1980s, Metro Transit and the Puget Sound Council of Governments (PSCOG) explored light rail and busway concepts to serve the region, [15] ultimately choosing to build a downtown transit tunnel that would be convertible from ...