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The Seattle trolleybus (or trolley [4] [5] [6]) system forms part of the public transportation network in the city of Seattle, Washington, operated by King County Metro. Originally opened on April 28, 1940, the network consists of 15 routes, with 174 trolleybuses operating on 68 miles (109 km) of two-way parallel overhead lines . [ 2 ]
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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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.
This is the second largest trolleybus system in the United States by ridership [16] and fleet size. [17] The trolleybuses are valued by Metro both as zero-emission vehicles, [18] and as vehicles well adapted to Seattle's hilly terrain. Metro's trolleybus fleet consists of 174 entirely low-floor New Flyer Xcelsior coaches. [19]
When the city received a US$10.2 million federal grant to pay off transit-related debts and modernize its transit system, rails on city streets were paved over or removed, and the opening in 1940 of the Seattle trolleybus system brought the end of streetcar service in Seattle in the early hours of April 12, 1941.
For almost 40 years, until 2012, [22] most of downtown Seattle was designated as a zero-fare zone, an area in which all rides on Metro vehicles were free, known as the "Ride Free" Area. Intended to encourage transit usage, improve accessibility and encourage downtown shopping, the zone was created in September 1973 and was originally called the ...
Cincinnati Street Railway Marmon-Herrington TC44 trolleybus #1300, photographed as new in 1947 Trolleybus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Boston trolleybus system A dual-mode bus operating as a trolleybus in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, in 1990 San Francisco Muni ETI 15TrSF trolleybus #7108, on Van Ness Avenue at Geary Street, in 2004