Metro Transit Alert - weekend service impacts; Mariners game on Sunday; Metro wins equity award from FTA;
King County, Washington sent this bulletin at 04/22/2022 06:23 PM PDT
Weekend Service Impacts
Event Reroute for Route ST 550; transit service to Seattle will be rerouted during the All in for Autism 5K and 10K Run on Sunday, April 24 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.;
Temporary Construction Reroute for Routes 21, 55, 56, 57, 120, and RapidRide C Line; transit service will be rerouted due to closure of the off-ramp from the West Seattle Bridge to northbound SR 99 from Monday, April 18 to Sunday, May 1. No stops will be missed.
Transit service may experience temporary delays near T-Mobile Park and surrounding area due to Mariner's game, on Sunday, April 24 at 1:10 p.m. Sounder train will run special Mariners service;
We recommend customers arrive at their bus stop a few minutes before the scheduled departure time of their trip;
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Guided by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) statement on Monday night, King County Metro will no longer require masks on transit. However, Public Health – Seattle & King County recommends that people wear masks in indoor public transportation settings at this time.
We thank our riders for your high mask usage throughout the mask mandate. Between 85% and 90% of Metro customers masked up, protecting your fellow riders and our employees. We’re also proud to have distributed nearly 8 million masks. Metro will continue to provide free masks through dispensers onboard all our modes of transit at least through July 1.
Metro revises RapidRide H Line launch date to complete transit corridor improvements
King County Metro has rescheduled the launch date for the RapidRide H Line, allowing crews time to complete construction on transit facility upgrades, bus lanes and intersection improvements. RapidRide H Line – currently operating as route 120 – was previously scheduled to launch in fall 2022 and will now shift to March 2023.
Unforeseen construction and materials delays from the regional concrete strike that began in early December 2021 have added several months to the original timeline of the RapidRide H Line project, which is building improvements to transform the 13-mile corridor served by route 120 between downtown Seattle, West Seattle, White Center and Burien.
Metro’s zero-emission program, new chargers shine for visiting federal officials
Metro General Manager Terry White joined Federal Transit Administration Administrator Nuria Fernandez in riding to the Tukwila charging facility on one of the new battery-electric coaches that are now part of the Metro fleet.
They toured the facility, saw one of the new coaches being charged, and heard from Metro staff on the steps the agency is taking to support King County’s Strategic Climate Action Plan. One of those steps is building the infrastructure needed to accommodate Metro’s growing fleet of zero-emission coaches at Metro’s South Base.
Later this week, the FTA named King County Metro the Most Equitable transit agency in tackling climate change. Metro was honored for developing a plan focused on addressing climate change impacts and transportation access in underserved communities.
