Friday, June 19, 2015

Participate in King County's Transit Future

Agencies offer one-stop opportunity to help shape both King County Metro’s Long-Range Plan and Sound Transit 3 system plan’

Why develop a long-range plan? Consider this: By 2040, another 360,000 people will be living in King County – more than half of Seattle’s current population. Between 2010 and 2014 congestion delays on 1-5 nearly doubled, and the region’s population is growing. Within 25 years, 74% more people are expected to call Everett home. Tacoma’s population is expected to grow by 60%, Bellevue’s by 33%, and Seattle’s by 28%. How will we get around our region with nearly a million new neighbors?
Public transportation in our region is preparing for the future. King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit are looking ahead to make sure they can provide the right mix of services and connections to get people where they need to go as our communities grow. At the same time, Sound Transit will be engaging with residents as it develops a system plan for a proposed ballot measure.
That’s why the two agencies are teaming up for a series of joint open houses to give King County residents a convenient one-stop opportunity to help shape both of these important long-range plans.
“Our ongoing integration of planning and operations at Metro and Sound Transit creates opportunities like this, to share public meetings and make it easier for people to help steer our shared transit future,” said King County Executive and Sound Transit Board Chair Dow Constantine. “It’s a pivotal time for both agencies, and we invite our riders to be a part of it.”

Open Houses will be held:
Tuesday, June 235:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Redmond Marriot
7401 164th Ave. NE., Redmond Read More >>
Thursday, June 2511:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Union Station
401 S Jackson St., Seattle
Thursday, June 255:30-7:30 p.m. King County Aquatic Center
650 SW Campus Dr., Federal Way

How can you help craft a long-range transit plan?
During the open houses, riders will be asked to look to the future to begin mapping out longer-range transit needs that will help support their growing communities. Will they need more express, frequent or local bus service – or a mix of all three types of services? 

For questions or more information about King County Metro Long Range Planning, please contact Rochelle Ogershok at (206) 477-3838. For more information on Sound Transit ST3 go to www.soundtransit.org. This press release is available on www.redmond.gov.

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