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King County Metro is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, including the city of Seattle in the Puget Sound region.It operates a fleet of 1,396 buses, serving 115 million rides at over 8,000 bus stops in 2012, making it the eighth-largest transit agency in the United States.
A King County Metro trolleybus on route 36 passing through the International District en route to Othello station. This is a list of current routes operated by the mass transit agency King County Metro in the Greater Seattle area. It includes routes directly operated by the agency, routes operated by contractors and routes operated by King ...
[78] [79] King County Metro is the sole metropolitan county transit agency in Washington and is authorized by the state legislature to collect a sales tax of 0.9 percent across King County. [80] [81] Prior to the 1999 approval of Initiative 695, the agency also collected a motor vehicle excise tax from the state government. [82]
Route 120, the H Line's predecessor, at Burien Transit Center in 2009. The Seattle-Delridge-White Center-Burien corridor was previously served by King County Metro's Route 120, which was consistently designated one of its 10 most frequently traveled routes. [2] [3] Development of the route into RapidRide service began in Fall of 2017. [4]
In 1978, Metro was the first large transit agency to order high-capacity articulated buses (buses with a rotating joint). [11] Today, King County Metro has one of the largest articulated fleets in North America (second only to MTA New York City Transit) and articulated buses account for about 42% of the agency's fleet.
List of King County Metro facilities; King County Metro fleet; B. Bellevue Transit Center; C. ... Route 41 (King County Metro) S.
The B Line is one of eight RapidRide lines (routes with some bus rapid transit features) operated by King County Metro in King County, Washington.The B Line began service on October 1, 2011, [2] running between downtown Redmond, Overlake and downtown Bellevue.
The C Line is one of eight RapidRide lines (routes with some bus rapid transit features) operated by King County Metro in King County, Washington.The C Line began service on September 29, 2012, [2] running between downtown Seattle, West Seattle, Fauntleroy and the Westwood Village Shopping Center in the Westwood neighborhood.