Service changes to Ballard bus routes start next weekend

Meghan Walker Ballard

Metro is rolling out new service changes to bus routes around the city, several of which serve Ballard.

On September 21st, a total of 200 new weekday trips will be added county-wide, plus 150 new Saturday trips and 200 new Sunday trips. The full list of new routes and changes will is available online.

Here are service changes for Ballard and surrounding neighborhoods:

Routes 15, 17, and 18: Routes 15, 17 and 18 will now stop both northbound and southbound at Elliott Ave W & W Prospect St. Open a PDF timetable for: Route 15, Route 17 & Route 18

Route 17: On weekdays, one new PM peak trip will be added, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trip. Open a PDF timetable for: Route 17

Route 28: On weekdays, one new AM peak trip will be added, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trip. Open a PDF timetable for: Route 28

Route 40: Five trips will be added on weekdays, nine trips will be added on Saturday, and 30 trips will be added on Sunday to expand 15-minute service frequency. Schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. Open a PDF timetable for: Route 40

Route 44: On weekdays, two AM peak hour trips will be added to address overcrowding, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. On Sunday, six trips will be added between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to improve service to approximately 12-minute frequency, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. Open a PDF timetable for: Route 44

RapidRide D Line: On weekdays, three new trips will be added, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. Open a PDF timetable for: RapidRide D Line

RapidRide E Line: On weekdays, 23 trips will be added, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. On Saturday, two late evening trips will be added, and schedules will be adjusted to accommodate the new trips. Open a PDF timetable for: RapidRide E Line

13 thoughts to “Service changes to Ballard bus routes start next weekend”

    1. Turn off MSLSD and the Chicken Noodle Network. Look around at your neighbors and blame them all, and tell us how that went. They have nannies, home organics delivered, new Tesla’s, remodelings, and plenty of $$ left over to travel often. Are they then “rich” according to you? They are being taxed at uber high rates too you know. That is supposed to supplement you and make you feel better. Put a bandaid on you owie for us all.

  2. That’s disappointing, the express routes get slower (added stop) and barely any service is added (except for one PM trip for the 17).

    Also presumably metro is adding the stop in order to serve Expedia, so the routes should be getting busier, yet no service is being added? These busses are all almost always standing-room only and often have to blow past people waiting at stops because they’re full.

        1. I live near downtown Ballard, it’s just a constant stream of buses. I feel sorry for the less affluent people on the southside that city hall basically just ignores.

          1. I also live near downtown Ballard. It’s a constant stream of busses because they’re all full of people and sometimes overfull.

            the service revisions include expansions to busses on the southside too, FWIW.

          2. Equating amenities in ballard to those on the southside is ludicrous. You are probably one of these people screaming at Mike O’Brien for having a heart.

  3. I’m delighted we will be getting so many added trips. The changes to the routes I use most may slow me down a little but for others this will make it so much more convenient, especially those who bus on the weekends.

  6. The more government does FOR you, the more it does TO you. Some just take a bit longer to figure this dilemma out. Some never grow up. This is what control appears as. AND when it’s your auto banned and or fee’d out of existence, then what? Is turning to Uber or Lyft people’s idea of freedom? Unlike trains, bus routes are flexible and can be changed to accommodate. Welcome to change folks. A word I hear is such a good thing for us all.

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