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Via KOMO News
By Kara Kostanich
SEATTLE — Metro Transit bus service could be changing around the University of Washington and Capitol Hill in preparation for two new Link light rail stations that will open next year.
Metro Bus route 25 and route 43 are lifelines for some longtime Montlake neighbors, but with Link light rail service coming to UW and Capitol Hill in March, seven bus routes are now on the chopping block.
“It is a problem for us,” said Linnea Hirst.
Metro Transit says the purposed cuts will restructure the transit network around the new light rail stops, ultimately providing more service to more riders on designated corridors.
“There are some routes that are being purposed for elimination,” said Jeremy Fichter with Metro Transit. “Most of the rides on those routes will continue to have other options available with fixed route transit routes.”
But that’s the problem for neighbors Kathy Smith-DiJulio and Hirst.
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Elizabeth Sandvig says
I will be driving twice as much if there is no bus for my husband to get to his destination without 3 transfers.