King County Metro Transit today announced that bus ridership is up 6 percent for the first three months of this year, exceeding all expectations. “The ridership trends made Metro the fastest growing large bus system in the nation last year,” reads the press release. (Goes to show how badly we need a mass transit system.) Meanwhile, the Ballard News-Tribune reports that a new bus route is coming to Ballard and Fremont: route 46 will change during midday hours to service Golden Gardens all the way through to Stone Way in Fremont.
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Bus ridership up, new route planned
April 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Ballard · Fremont · Phinney Ridge-Greenwood
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1 Ben // Apr 29, 2008 at 1:20 pm
In the Tribune article it says that Metro can’t add transit hours, just move them around. That needs to change, we should be increasing service everywhere.
2 gooner // Apr 30, 2008 at 3:10 pm
nice to see that the community’s out cry actually worked. i have become too synical and didn’t think that it would. this is good news.
3 Tom // May 2, 2008 at 2:47 pm
One of my acquaintances, who works for the transit union, once told me that Metro doesn’t have enough drivers, or money to pay drivers, to staff new buses/routes/hours.
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