Proposed Metro Service Cuts Include Routes 5, 26 & 28

By Sean Keeley · July 7th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Metro Transit is asking the King County Council for a temporary $20 annual surcharge on licensed vehicles as a stop-gap measure to maintain bus service. Metro has announced that if the council doesn’t approve the surcharge, it will have to cut up to 600,000 service hours – or 17 percent of current bus routes – in 2012 and 2013.

According to Metro’s proposal, routes 5, 26 and 28, which serve Fremont, Phinney Ridge and Greenwood, will be hit hard.

Routes 26 and 28, which runs along 36th Street, would be eliminated. The 26 & 28 Express would be reduced or revised.

Both the Local and Express service on Route 5, which runs along Fremont Avenue North, would be reduced or revised.

You can weigh in on the issue at two public meetings, next Tuesday, July 12, at the King County Courthouse, Council Chambers, 516 Third Ave., Seattle; and at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, at the Burien City Council Chambers, 400 SW 152nd St., Burien.

If you can’t make it to one of the public hearings, you can submit your comments to the council online.

Click here for a complete list of all routes and whether the proposal calls for them to be eliminated, reduced or remain unchanged. Click here for a map of all affected routes in Northwest Seattle.

via Phinneywood

5 responses so far ↓

1 jan ostebo // Jul 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm

This is one of the most stupid ideas so far by metro first they move the routes for us to run to catch and now they want to cancel them?

Wow ok so you charge 2.50 each way and we agree to pay your free-LEAVE IT ALONE!!
2 z // Jul 8, 2011 at 8:01 am

absolutely ridiculous!!!
3 Justin R. // Jul 8, 2011 at 3:07 pm

So, the county will keep subsidizing the Ride Free Area downtown, but major routes like the #5 are cut? Seattle needs to divorce itself from Metro and operate its own mass transit.
4 Hoby // Jul 8, 2011 at 6:52 pm

It’s a bad time to be cutting service.
5 Stephanie // Jul 10, 2011 at 9:21 pm

Of course it is; but they have to because of the economy, Tim Eyman, and a general lack of political leadership for transit, Metro is losing money and has no choice. Write to the King County Council and ask them to support this reasonable solution to these cuts, which will benefit both drivers and riders.