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Dial-A-Ride-Transit services are assigned route numbers 900-939. [4] Custom bus routes are assigned route numbers from 950-999. [4] The King County Water Taxi uses route numbers 973 and 975. Currently routes serving the private Lakeside School and University Prep in Seattle are assigned route numbers 980-999.
The busiest route that year was Route 550, which connects Seattle to Bellevue and carried 1.17 million riders. [12] The fleet of 319 buses [3] is owned by Sound Transit and includes double-decker buses with up to 81 seats, articulated buses, high-floor motorcoaches, and standard buses with a minimum of 42 seats.
[2] [98] The bus routes were relocated in March 2019 to new stops around the Westlake station area on various streets. [ 66 ] [ 99 ] King County Metro runs a special route , the Route 97 Link Shuttle , between all Link light rail stations during service disruptions, stopping at Pine Street and 5th Avenue to serve Westlake station.
The routes connect major regional hubs throughout 53 cities in three counties (King, Pierce, and Snohomish) in the Puget Sound region. Sound Transit Express ranks first in the nation in the number of commuter bus passengers carried and in vehicle miles driven. [3] The first nine routes and 114 buses began carrying passengers on September 19, 1999.
Sound Transit's current bus service on the west half of the corridor, Sound Transit Express Route 550, carries over 10,000 daily passengers and takes 35 minutes to travel from Seattle to Bellevue. [ 221 ] [ 222 ] King County Metro's RapidRide B Line operates on the east half of the corridor, traveling between Bellevue and Overlake at a ...
A Downtown Seattle bus stop on Pine Street with a sign for the Magic Carpet zone, 1975. 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 ...
C Line stop in West Seattle. The city of Seattle made major improvements to the RapidRide C and D lines with money generated by Proposition 1 (which increases sales tax by 0.1 percent and imposes a $60 annual car-tab fee). [10] The first round of improvements came in June 2015 when headways on the RapidRide C and D lines were decreased.
State Route 522 connects Seattle to its northeastern suburbs. Two public transportation agencies are based in Seattle: King County Metro, which operates local and commuter buses within King County, and Sound Transit, which operates commuter rail, light rail, and regional express buses within the greater Puget Sound region. In recent years, as ...