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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 ...
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.
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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In 1978, Metro was the first large transit agency to order high-capacity articulated buses (buses with a rotating joint). [11] Today, King County Metro has one of the largest articulated fleets in North America (second only to MTA New York City Transit) and articulated buses account for about 42% of the agency's fleet.
The station is also served by two bus routes operated by King County Metro that use bus stops adjacent to the station: Route 50 travels east–west between West Seattle, SoDo, Columbia City, Seward Park and Othello station; [46] and Route 106 provides local, frequent-stop service on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South between Rainier Beach and ...
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.The population was 2,269,675 in the 2020 census, [1] making it the most populous county in Washington, and the 12th-most populous in the United States.
Overlake Transit Center opened on February 4, 2002, and cost $8 million to construct with funds from Sound Transit, the City of Redmond, King County Metro, Microsoft, and the Federal Transit Administration, opened on February 4, 2002. [1] The new transit center initially lacked passenger shelters and a paved parking lot, which were added in May.