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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 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.
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.
A dual-mode bus on route 107 at Westlake station just after the station opened, in 1990. Metro Transit began planning a bus-based transit system through downtown Seattle in the 1970s, including a transit mall, tunnel, or bus terminal in the Westlake area.
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 ...
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) pair of public transit tunnels in Seattle, Washington, United States. The double-track tunnel and its four stations serve Link light rail trains on the 1 Line as it travels through Downtown Seattle.
(The Center Square) – King County Metro is resuming bus services at a Seattle location that became an increasing public safety concern at the end of 2024. King County Metro closed bus stops ...
Metro uses skip-stop spacing on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Avenues in Downtown Seattle, whereby buses skip every other bus stop. On 3rd Avenue, each bus route is assigned to Blue, Yellow, Red or Green stop groups and each bus stop has two color designations; in the northbound direction, every other bus stop is a Red/Yellow or Green/Blue stop, while in ...