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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 County Metro under contract with another agency. Routes are organized by route number (or letters in the case of ...
Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit providers, and consists of three non-connected lines: the 1 Line (formerly Central Link) in King County and Snohomish County, which travels for 33 miles (53 km) between Lynnwood, Seattle, and Seattle–Tacoma ...
By way of contrast, Metro's peak-only route with the lowest cost per boarding was route 206 (Newport Hills to International School), at $2.04. Metro's highest cost route by this measure, route 149 (Renton Transit Center to Black Diamond), had a peak time cost of $34.47 per boarding. Route 149 serves the rural southeastern corner of King County ...
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.
The agency provides a number of regional express bus routes connecting Seattle with neighboring suburbs and cities. Metro Transit's system includes a network of trolleybus routes. The Sounder commuter rail system consists of two lines, linking Seattle with Lakewood along its South Line and Seattle with Everett along its North Line. Several ...
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 ...
A King County Metro bus and Sound Transit Link light rail train at Symphony station, during joint bus–rail operations at tunnel stations. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel is part of the "Third Avenue Transit Spine", the busiest transit corridor in Seattle, serving a combined average of 54,000 weekday riders with bus stops on the surface. [32]
Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It manages the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma , regional Sounder commuter rail , and Sound Transit Express bus service.