URGENT!
From Peggy Newsom: If you ride Route 3 or 4 and use bus stops on James between 3rd and 9th — now or in the future — please take the time to comment on this proposal. If, as KC Metro proposes, the 3 and 4 bus routes west of 9th are moved to Yesler there will no longer be convenient access from First Hill residences like Skyline, downtown to City Hall, KC Admin Building, King County Courthouse, Harborview & First Hill hospitals and doctors’ offices, the food bank, Seattle University, Skyline senior residences, and on to Madrona (34th & Union).
Comments are due by June 30! Please provide comments in the SURVEY link below, and contact Tristan Cook at Metro directly to express your concerns. Also please forward this to other 3 and 4 bus riders you know. Thank you
Overview from Metro – their rationale for the change
Routes 3 and 4 are trolley bus routes that serve Seattle Pacific University, Queen Anne, Downtown Seattle, First Hill, and Madrona (Route 3) or Judkins Park (Route 4). These routes experience substantial delay along James Street resulting in significant impacts to route schedule reliability and customer travel times. Previous measures to mitigate delay have experienced only temporary benefit to travel times.
Metro is considering moving routes 3 and 4 off of James Street and onto Yesler Way, 8th Ave, and 9th Ave between 3rd Ave and Jefferson St. This reroute would allow routes 3 and 4 to avoid heavy congestion on James Street when crossing I-5, providing, faster and more reliable service for the over 11,000 daily riders. This project would also provide better service to the Yesler Terrace, an office and multifamily housing development.
A map is included in the attached handout and on our webpage.
Your input will help Metro decide whether or not to take steps toward implementing this change in the future.
Please tell them what you think and share this information by June 30
- Visit Metro’s website for more information
- Take our online survey (open through June 30)
- Share the attached one-page handout
- Also send an email to Tristan.Cook@kingcounty.gov
About the same distance as James are the buses on Madison Street, soon to be enhanced by the rapid bus improvements. Do riders find that they go the right places as the #3 and #4?