Sound Transit Express will be running their regular service schedules on MLK Day, but may find their usual bus lanes filled with parked cars. . Photo by AVGeekJoe
Next Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Most transit agencies run a regular weekday schedule. The outliers are King County Metro, Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail and Tacoma streetcar, the King County Water Taxis, the Seattle Streetcars, Community Transit’s commuter routes, Clallam Transit, and Mason Transit.
While Link Light Rail is running a Saturday schedule, the Saturday span of service is the same as the weekday span of service. With 3-car trains running all day (as has become the unpublished tradition for all Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays), it will also be more spacious, especially if you wait in the right section of the platform to board the third car.
As Zach pointed out over a year ago, the Seattle Department of Transportation has bought out the Metro weekday reductions on Seattle-only routes (except those in the separate UW reductions category) on minor holidays, but the Seattle Municipal Code hasn’t caught up with that reality. Free parking is allowed on minor holidays in a lot of lanes that would normally function as bus lanes.
Information about bus reroutes can be found at Metro’s, Sound Transit’s, and Community Transit’s alert pages.
I am no longer including shuttles that are not open to the public in this list. Check here for additional transit options provided through the University of Washington. (None of these operate on weekends or on MLK Day.)
Service levels for transit agencies around the region for this Saturday through Monday are below the fold.
| Agency/Service | Saturday | Sunday | MLK Day |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bikeshare (Seattle) | any time | any time | any time |
| Clallam Transit | Saturday | No Service | No Service |
| Community Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Local Weekday Commuter routes 402, 413, 421, 855 only |
| Everett Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
| Greys Harbor Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
| Intercity Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
| Island Transit | No Service | No Service | Weekday |
| Jefferson Transit | Saturday | No Service | Weekday |
| King County Metro | Saturday | Sunday | Reduced Weekday UW Reductions |
| King County Water Taxis | Saturday | Sunday | No Service |
| Kitsap Transit | Saturday | No Service | Weekday No PSNS |
| Link Light Rail | Saturday All 3-car trains |
Sunday All 3-car trains |
Saturday frequency All 3-car trains |
| Mason Transit | Saturday | No Service | No Service |
| Monorail | 8:30 AM – 11 PM | 8:30 AM – 9 PM | 7:30 AM – 9 PM |
| Pacific Transit | Route 20 Only | No Service | Weekday |
| Pierce Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
| Seattle Streetcars | Saturday | Sunday | Sunday |
| Skagit Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Monday |
| Sound Transit Express | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
| Sounder | No Service | No Service | Weekday |
| Tacoma Link | Saturday | Sunday | Sunday |
| Twin Transit | Saturday | No Service | Weekday |
| Washington State Ferries | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday – Check route |
| Whatcom Transit | Saturday | Sunday | Weekday |
Thanks, Brent. I think it’s supposed to rain too. Any website for freeway forecast?
Still think it’s a good idea to start treating politically-inflicted artificial logistics destruction as either natural disasters or ISIS attempts reduce our fuel mileage so we have to buy more gas from the oil wells they’ve seized.
Giant military bulldozers are already fitted with undercarriage machinery for leaving diamond-shaped prints in the new squashed-metal pavement of the I-5 lanes they clear. And it’s classified, but be ready to wave to the pilots when huge camo-painted Sky-Crane helicopters get the towing contract for restoring downtown bus lanes.
If a Defense Secretary named “Mad Dog” will won’t liberate our Federal highways from our worst threat to freedom, every day, not only minor national holidays….Who Will?
Especially if he was ever stationed at JBLM.
Mark
Thanks so much for using my photo. Very nice Double Tall driver saw me as a photog and wearing my Seahawks leather jacket. Awesome driver, awesome transit agency, awesome memory, awesome photograph, and awesome Double Tall bus.
Last year I was able to bus from Renton to Bellingham and back on the same day on MLK Day. The key is the Skagit Transit service from Everett to Mount Vernon and from Mount Vernon to Bellingham. The weather doesn’t seem to be that great for epic transit journeys this year.