Route 209, one of several “dead end” routes being extended.

Community Transit will add 68 new bus trips on Saturday, September 23, with new and extended routes and additional commuter trips. The service change, the first of a two-part service proposal that extends to March 2018, focuses on improving connections between routes in the county. Community Transit accomplished this with short extensions to existing dead-end routes in Lynnwood and Marysville, along with new service to Boeing/Paine Field in Everett, that will prove to be effective for the little investment in hours they require.

New peak hour service to the Boeing and Paine Field area in Everett will be added to Route 105, extended north from its usual terminus at Mariner Park and Ride to the Hardeson Road area (Community Transit’s headquarters) via Airport Road. The extended, peak-only route will effectively “shadow” the future route of the Swift Green Line, scheduled to open in 2019, and duplicate the sparse Everett Transit service that exists in the area. New Route 107 will connect Lynnwood Transit Center to the Boeing/Paine Field area three times per day, traveling up Mukilteo Speedway and providing South County residents with a new commute option. During Community Transit’s first year of service, before it was even called “Community Transit”, the Boeing-Lynnwood route was the system’s most popular, but faded away through decades of network adjustments.

Route 196, an oddball bus that refuses to leave 196th Street in order to serve two major transit centers, will be extended from Alderwood Mall to Ash Way Park and Ride, where plenty of local and regional buses stop. The extension boosts frequency on service to the mall (served by routes 115 and 116), as well as Downtown Edmonds (served by routes 116 and 130). Another mall-to-transit center extension will come to Route 209 in North County, creating a new connection between Smokey Point Transit Center in Arlington and the Quil Ceda Village complex on the Tulalip Reservation. Riders in the North County will now have a 2-seat ride (instead of 3-seat) to Lake Stevens, without having to transfer in Everett.

In addition to the new connections, a few routes are receiving minor changes:

  • Route 115 will be truncated to McCollum Park & Ride, leaving the last mile to Mariner Park & Ride to Routes 105, 106, and 109.
  • Route 277 will be eliminated and replaced by extended trips on Routes 270 and 271 serving the Boeing Everett plant.
  • Route 280 will be moved to serve Granite Falls High School and new housing to the northwest of downtown. Peak hour trips that are already truncated at Lake Stevens will be moved to a new turnaround at 20th Street, near the downtown library.

New and adjusted trips will be added to several routes to increase service:

  • Routes 240, 271, and 280 will have additional midday trips on Sundays to bring frequency up to 60 minutes.
  • Route 402 will have a new afternoon trip added at about 4 p.m., and another afternoon trip will be converted to a Route 422 trip, still serving the Lynnwood Transit Center.
  • Route 412 will have a new morning trip added at about 8:10 a.m., and two new afternoon trips added at about 2:40 and 4:45 p.m. These trips will extend the morning commute later and start the afternoon commute earlier.
  • Route 413 will have three new morning trips added at about 5:40, 6:40 and 7:10 a.m., and a new afternoon trip added at about 3:40 p.m.
  • Route 415 will have to new morning trips added at about 5:20 and 6:30 a.m., and a new afternoon trip added at about 3:40 p.m. This will start the morning commute earlier.
  • Route 421 will have a new morning trip added at about 7:30. This will extend the morning commute later.
  • Route 422 will have a new morning trip added at about 5:45 a.m., and a new afternoon trip added at about 4:40 p.m. This will increase overall trips on this route by 50 percent and restore service to pre-recession levels.
  • Route 425 will have a new morning trip added at about 7 a.m. and a new afternoon trip added at about 3:15 p.m. These trips will extend the morning commute later, start the afternoon commute earlier and restore this route’s service to pre-recession levels.
  • Route 435 will have a new morning trip added at about 7:40 a.m. This will extend the morning commute later.
  • Route 880 will have a new morning trip added at about 5 a.m., starting the morning commute earlier.
  • Route 810 will have a new morning trip added at about 10:45 a.m., and a new evening trip added at about 8:15 p.m. This will extend both the morning and evening commutes later.
  • Route 855 will have a new morning trip added at about 5:30 a.m., starting the morning commute earlier.
  • Route 871 will have a new morning trip added at about 5:40 a.m., and a new afternoon trip added at about 3 p.m. This will start the morning commute earlier.

6 Replies to “Community Transit Fills Network Gaps and Adds More Trips”

  2. Kind of disappointed that the 107 only serves Boeing at peak hours in the peak direction. The factory runs 24 hours a day, you know? The overnight shift is just getting off work in the morning, and the evening shift is getting on in the afternoon. Depending on whether the buses layover between runs, I don’t see why employees couldn’t ride deadheading buses back to Lynnwood in the morning/to the factory in the afternoon. Another run at around 10 PM to serve the 2nd/3rd shift change would be fantastic too, but I don’t see that happening.

    I was also really hoping that the 105 “Green Line shadow” would run its entire length all day – very sad to see it truncated off peak.

    Definitely good to have the 107 as an option though – much better connectivity to the regional system than the Metro 952. Watching the only 952 run that stops at Ash Way P&R in the morning pull away just as my ST 512 is arriving is heartbreaking. Also good that the 107 skips Ash Way and its half-completed set of HOV ramps.

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