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News Release
Release date: September 14,
2000
Improved regional mobility
highlights Metro service revisions that start Saturday, Sept. 16
Sound Transit is introducing
three Express bus routes and new Sounder commuter train service, and King County
Metro Transit is revising service to connect to the new train as well as adding
four new bus routes of its own -- as part of Metro' s overall service revision
that takes effect this Saturday, Sept. 16, 2000.
Metro revises its service three
times each year to improve service and respond to customer needs, based on advice
and comment from residents, bus riders, community organizations and local jurisdictions.
The goal is to reduce duplication of service and help the region move toward a
seamless, integrated transit system.
To help smooth transition to
the new service, Metro and Sound Transit will have teams on the street at these
times and locations:
- Wednesday, Sept. 13, and Monday,
Sept. 18, from 5:30-9 a.m. at the Redmond park-and-ride lot.
- Saturday, Sept. 16, from 9
a.m.-1 p.m., and on Sunday, Sept. 17, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Bellevue Transit
Center.
- Monday, Sept. 18, from 5:30-9
a.m. and 3-6 p.m., at the Bothell park-and-ride lot and nearby stops, assisting
customers with transfer connections between Sound Transit and Metro.
- Monday, Sept. 18, at the Renton
Transit Center and park-and-ride lot.
In addition, Sound Transit
will have 100 volunteers assisting customers board the new Sounder commuter trains
at the King Street and Auburn Sounder stations.
New orange
timetables for detailed routing and scheduling information are now available on
buses and at outlets. Timetables and maps will be available on Metro
Online by the close
of business Sept.15.
Sounder commuter train service
will begin on Monday, Sept. 18. Metro routes 151 and 152 will have
select trips connecting with Sounder arrival and departure times at the Auburn
Station, located west of "A" St. S.W. and First St. S.W. On timetables,
the specific times for those connections is indicated by the new train symbol
below:
The new Sound Transit Express
bus routes are:
- Route 540 -- Redmond-University
District Express
- Route 545/546 -- Redmond-Seattle
Express
- Route 560 -- Bellevue-Sea-Tac
Airport Express.
These new ST routes and a new
Metro Route 277 will replace portions of Metro routes 263, 267,
275 and 276 starting Monday:
- New Metro Route 277
operates weekdays from 6-9 a.m. and 3-6 p.m. between the University District,
Kingsgate and the Houghton park-and-ride lots.
Replacing portions of Metro
Route 340 are new Sound Transit Express Route 560 and ST routes 530, 531
and 532, and new Metro routes 140, 341 and 342:
- New Metro Route 140
provides daily east-west service linking the Burien Transit Center with the Renton
Park-and-Ride.
- New Metro Route 341
provides daily east-west service between Bothell and the Aurora Village Transit
Center.
- New Metro Route 342
operates weekdays from 5:50-7:20 a.m. and 3:40-5:10 p.m. between Shoreline, the
Bothell park-and-ride and Bellevue and Renton transit centers.
Other changes will be made
on Eastside routes 230, 254 and 291. Seattle routes 10, 11, 12,
20, 43 and 44 will have night schedule adjustments. Routes 10, 11,
12 and 20 will have Sunday schedule adjustments. Other changes will
be made to routes 82 and 84, to Route 11 to Madison Valley
and to Route 185 serving the Auburn Senior Complex
Also starting Sept. 16, transfers
from Community Transit, Everett Transit, King County Metro Transit, Pierce Transit
and Sound Transit will be universally accepted on those services for base fare.
This transfer complements PugetPass, which was introduced last year and is good
on transit systems all over the central Puget Sound region.
To help inform its customers
of the September service change, Metro has prepared 500 posted bus stop rider
alerts, 2,500 coach posters and 40,000 special Rider Alert brochures.
For more complete
details on Metro' s September service change, please visit us at transit.metrokc.gov.
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