In order to save money, preserve bus service and operate more efficiently, Metro Transit is making changes to its service. Some of those changes include Ballard routes.
Linda Thielke with Metro sent the following alert for routes serving Ballard:
• Route 17 – There are routing changes in downtown Seattle for both northbound and southbound trips.
• Route 28 – On weekdays, the southbound express trip to downtown Seattle from Aurora Avenue and North 143rd Street at 5:34 a.m. will be discontinued. Also discontinued are all shuttle trips operating between Aurora Avenue and North 143rd Street and between Fremont Avenue North and North 34th Street.
• Route 46 – The westbound trips to Golden Gardens from Fremont Avenue North and North 34th Street at 11:33 a.m., 12:33 p.m. and 1:33 p.m., and the eastbound trips to Fremont from Golden Gardens at 12:10 p.m., 1:10 p.m. and 2:10 p.m. will be discontinued.
• Route 75 – On weekday evenings and all day Sunday, service frequency between Ballard and Northgate will improve from 60 minutes to 30 minutes. Seventy-nine trips per week between Ballard and Northgate and 109 trips between Northgate and the U-District will be added.
“Unfortunately, due to reduced sales-tax revenue for transit, Metro also had to eliminate some trips on designated routes,” Thielke writes, “These trip reductions were chosen to minimize the disruption for bus riders whenever possible.”
All service changes can be found here. The changes will begin this Saturday, October 2nd.