News of Madison Valley

With the passage of Proposition 1, the City of Seattle now has a funding mechanism that is expected to raise $45 million per year to help address overcrowding and reliability issues with Metro service, and to add frequency to meet demand for more transit. Based on Metro’s Service Guidelines and the Seattle Transit Master Plan, funding is being used to improve the reliability of service, add trips to ease overcrowding and improve service frequency on many Metro routes.

The direct link that has the link to service added or revised by route: http://metro.kingcounty.gov/up/sc/rideralert/2015/sept/route-revisions.html#metro

Here are some of the changes for routes 2, 8, 11, 12, 43 and 48. Your may wish to compare these to the proposed changes that occur in March 2016 which are currently being debated by the King County Council. In the case of the 8, 11 and 43 they are to totally different with the elimination of the 43 and the move to East Madison to 19th Ave East for the 8 and 11.

Route 2

Route 2 service frequency will improve from 30 minutes to 15 minutes with the addition of ten northbound trips to downtown Seattle and eight southbound trips to Madrona each evening, and nine northbound and ten southbound trips on Saturday.

On Sunday, early morning and late evening service frequency will also improve from 60 minutes to 30 minutes with the addition of five northbound and seven southbound trips.

Most of the new Route 2 trips on weekday evenings and Sunday will be connected to Route 13.

Route 8

On Saturday, 15 minute service will be extended with the addition of three northbound trips to the Seattle Center and two southbound trips to Rainier Beach.

On Sunday, one early morning and one late evening northbound trip will be added in order to maintain a 30 minute service frequency for most of the day.

Route 11

On weekdays, midday Route 11 service frequency will improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of 11 westbound trips to downtown Seattle and 11 eastbound trips to Madison Park. Also, 15 minute service frequency will be extended to about 8 p.m. with the addition of three westbound and three eastbound early evening trips. Late night service frequency will improve from 60 minutes to 30 minutes with the addition of two westbound and two eastbound trips.

On Saturday, midday and early evening service frequency will improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of 22 westbound and 22 eastbound trips. Late night service frequency will improve to every 30 minutes with the addition of three westbound and three eastbound trips.

On Sunday, early morning and late night service frequency will improve with the addition of eight westbound and eight eastbound trips.

Route 12

On weekdays, evening service frequency will improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of 11 westbound trips to downtown Seattle and 11 eastbound trips to Interlaken Park.

On Saturday, evening service frequency will also improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of 10 westbound and 11 eastbound trips.

On Sunday, service frequency will improve to every 30 minutes with the addition of four westbound and four eastbound trips.

Service will be extended until midnight on all days.

Route 43

On Saturday mornings, service frequency will improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of three southbound trips to downtown Seattle and three northbound trips to the U-District.

On weekday and Saturday evenings until about 10 p.m., and on Sunday from the start of service until about 10 p.m., Route 43 will not be connected to Route 44.

Route 48

On Saturday evenings, service frequency will improve to every 15 minutes with the addition of five southbound trips to Mount Baker and five northbound trips to Loyal Heights.

During the day on Sunday, service frequency will also improve to every 15 minutes.