Faster trips, more service in store for Community Transit
Some of Community Transit’s busiest bus routes will be a little shorter in just a few weeks.
Starting Oct. 2, Sound Transit light rail’s Northgate station is set to open. The terminal will let a swarm of Community Transit buses stop there instead of venturing farther south into Seattle.
“It gets us out of the business of being stuck in traffic on I-5 or busy Seattle streets,” said Roland Behee, Community Transit director of planning and development.
Northgate light rail is the first major shift in the agency’s six-year development plan, with service increases, new routes, an envisioned study of zero-emission vehicles and an experiment with on-demand transit.
Once the Northgate light rail station opens, Community Transit’s 800-series routes and the 511, 512 and 513 buses will end there.
All of that saved time — about 4,000 service hours — is being reallocated to improve frequency for those routes to better align with the light rail schedule.
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