Temporary Stop Closures & reroute during President Biden's visit
President Biden will be visiting the Seattle area today, April 21 & Friday, April 22.
During this visit:
Bus service will reroute effective immediately until mid-morning Friday, April 22.
Stewart St will be closed from 7th Ave to 4th Ave.
With the closure of Stewart St; four stops will be missed. Please see below for details.
Service alerts will be sent and posted at @MyCommTransBus and on communitytransit.org/alerts should reroutes and bus stop closures change.
Morning Service
Routes 402, 405, 410, 415, 417 & 422, 424
Stops not served:
7th & Stewart
4th & Stewart
2nd & Pine
Buses will drop off at 2nd & Pike in front of Target
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WACOMMT/bulletins/314802a
President Biden’s Seattl event prompts a dozen metro reroutes, handful of road closures
King County Metro is closing a number of bus routes during President Joe Biden’s visit to Seattle, lasting Thursday through Friday afternoon. The Seattle Department of Transportation is asking travelers to anticipate delays as the U.S. Secret Service has the authority to shut down freeways and surface streets. President Biden’s exact travel routes are not published ahead of time.
Link to tweet
“Starting Thursday morning, Metro routes 7, 40, 62, 64, 70, 216, 218, 257, 268, 311, 320 and the RapidRide C Line, and Sound Transit Express Routes 545 and 554 are operating on reroutes, and are affected by closures of portions of Westlake Avenue North, Denny Way, Fourth Avenue, and Lenora, Virginia and Pine streets,” according to SDOT and KC Metro.
Sound Transit also has reroutes for ST Express routes 510, 545, 554, 577, 578, 590, 592 and 594.
The City of Seattle is coordinating street closures and signal timing for the president’s visit.
https://mynorthwest.com/3443987/president-joe-biden-seattle-traffic-metro-reroutes-road-closures/