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Most were walking, dancing, hopscotching, etc. One drove a child's toy car. They still beat the bus.

Yeah those few all-way stops are more annoying than cars. There aren't too many cars on that part of 3rd Ave.

15th St NW/Elliot Ave. It has much heavier vehicular traffic than other candidates. It has three lanes per direction while both ends (Ballard Bridge/Denny Way) don't have the matching capacity, so there is no point to preserve the kind of capacity. Usually, a corridor is more dangerous when it has over-built capacity, which I think is the case for Elliot Ave. The congestion seen on Elliot Ave isn't because there isn't enough lane but because of the bottleneck on each end (Ballard Bridge - Denny Way). The third lane on each direct only serves as parking lot. And the existing...

I think 269 should go to South Bellevue since they are 215/218 to Mercer Island already. The 218 is peak only. The 215 only runs every half hour between Issaquah (Highlands) and Mercer Island. The 269 also runs every half hour. By sending it to Mercer Island the two buses combine for fifteen minute headways between Mercer Island and Issaquah. Meanwhile, the 556 runs every fifteen minutes from Issaquah to Downtown Bellevue (via South Bellevue).

The stop at the bottom of 3rd Ave s at main was completely rebuilt last year. Rhe ride is smoother for sure but the bises still all pile up at the bottom of the hill. The signal covers many different crossing options so a signal cycle takes seemingly forever. On 3rd in belltown, they put in all 4hise new stop signs to calm traffic but apparently forgot the bus has to make all 5hise stops to.what I see as a rider on 3rd is my bus jammed up behind a ton of other coaches rather than cars or commercial traffic..lots...

I think frequency is also an issue here. A walk from SLU to Seattle Center sometimes take less than the time spent on waiting for bus even if it is on time. Now with good bus lane, I think it should run more frequent off-peak as well.

I don't quite understand the logic of running so many all-day service to Issaquah Highlands. The area down the hill seems more like a place with off-peak demand. 215 should stop at Downtown Issaquah rather than highlands.

Unfortunately there isn't a good transfer point between 405 express service and I-90 express service. Issaquah to Renton via South Bellevue would be an ok option between Renton and Issaquah had S1 could transfer 556 somewhere closer to I-90.

"None (taking 269) from Mercer Island." I bet before this fall, no one would commute this way by bus. There isn't a reasonable transit option between Sammamish and Downtown Seattle. It is nice to have especially for game day, but I think 269 should go to South Bellevue since they are 215/218 to Mercer Island already.

They were running uphill last time too…

Metro could probably produce a report on this. They could perhaps rank the routes based on potential speedups rejected by SDOT under previous mayors, multiplied by the estimated ridership if the route is sped up. One common thread all of the slowest routes seem to have is that they are passing by freeway interchanges. So it might just be worthwhile to put a bus lane by every one of those.

I think these are particularly egregious: - 2nd/4th: 24/7 BAT lanes - 3rd and Prefontaine between CID and Pioneer Square - 3rd through Belltown (at least BAT lanes...) And a non-exhaustive list: - D: 24/7 BAT lanes on 15th, BAT lanes on Mercer west of 1st - C: 24/7 BAT lanes on Blanchard/Lenora, 3rd through Blanchard, BAT lanes through Alaska/Avalon - E: Extend BAT lanes across Aurora Bridge (also helps the 5, 28) - 7: Jackson (also helps the 14, 36, 106) - 72: LCW from 92nd to 145th (also helps the 61, 77) - 67: U Bridge, Roosevelt/11th up...

SDOT reported a few other streets here https://publicola.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/EO-Denny-Implementation-Memo-04_17_2026_Final.pdf as directed by Mayor’s EO Biggest one is 45th near U Village

I mean Jackson Street comes to mind, the issue there is that doing transit priority will probably mean a full replacement project to align buses and the streetcar. But my pick is 3rd Avenue in Belltown as well as the stretch of 3rd between Yesler and Main (Southbound). Lack of priority in Belltown is obnoxious and would benefit a huge number of routes, while the two blocks of 3rd between Yesler and 2nd Extension is just a no-brainer. Related, we could also make all part-time bus lanes full-time (including all of 3rd Ave). My other thought is James, but haven’t...

“You’re acting like walk-ups from the existing and future apartments in the station area don’t exist, that Lake City and Bitter Lake don’t exist, or that the 522/S3 doesn’t exist. ” The struggle of making Pinehurst attract riders is that there won’t be anything special there. It will be like the other four Lynnwood Link stations (minus the parking) with modest residential TOD and maybe some minor retail at the station and that’s it. Even getting to Link from Lake City or Bitter Lake is possible by using other Metro routes — and their off-street transit centers will have the...

Good question. I want them throughout the city but I don't have a list of which are most critical or feasible. Three other unreliable routes are the 131, 132, and 62. There's a 4th Ave S improvement project that's supposed to give more bus priority for the move of the busway routes to 4th if ST closes the busway. There's been a question of whether the bus-lane improvements have been watered down. So the city could accelerate that project and pay more attention to transit there. But that's a large investment, and the current issue is for corridors that can...

“The festivities don’t have to happen when things open. ” I think a Wednesday is a horrible day for the celebration. I think Saturdays are best. If they do leave it on a Wednesday it should start about 4-5 pm. Unlike other celebrations I don’t expect this one to draw huge crowds. It’s just one station and there are no new tracks associated with it. Generally, ST celebrations are fun and well-attended. Since it will be probably 9-10 years until the next one, ST could instead plan and hold an annual systemwide celebration. Central Link opened on July 18, 2009...

The transfer at 130th isn't yet clear, but I expect it won't be too bad. The 5 currently stops farside both directions, so if the 75/77 is extended to the college -- currently the 77 is planned to loop at 143/145, forcing another transfer or 15 block walk to the college -- and a southbound stop just east of Greenwood is added, the transfers would be reasonable. Southbound riders continuing on Greenwood would only have to walk a bit more than a bus length back to Greenwood and then cross it. Northbound they'd walk that same stretch and then cross...

So this was the most painfully obvious spot for a bus lane.... Where else should we put red paint?

While I've been waiting years for the return of the 121/122/123 and service returning to the Boulevard Park Freeway Station to Downtown Seattle. Although this is now back to a 17-19 minute ride to Downtown, down from a 50 minute ride on the 131 that required a half mile walk from this stop, this week's return of the 121 has not as popular as I expected. I think for a couple reasons: 1) The 45 minute headway. Gone are the days when the freeway station was served by three routes and riders didn't need to rely on the schedule during...

Mike, Link should only go to and from the places I want to go. Anything else is a waste of my time, not to mention public funding!

"City mayor spends millions to improve city she was elected to improve and are her constituents"

You're acting like walk-ups from the existing and future apartments in the station area don't exist, that Lake City and Bitter Lake don't exist, or that the 522/S3 doesn't exist. All that is thousands of riders to the two stations. Even if the golf course displaces a quarter of each station's walkshed. In any case, we wanted the station at 130th & Aurora. People also go to Jackson Park to walk the trail around the periphery, and through the natural area on the west side. A few may ride Link to golf, if the course has club rentals so they...

The last paragraph of the article says the celebration will be later on Wednesday. We'd have to confer with Michael whether he heard that from an official or inadvertently assumed it. The Times article by Mike Lindblom says there will be a celebration but doesn't commit to a day and time. More bits from the Times article: "Sept. 30 turned out to be the “earliest possible date” the station could open, and some aesthetic features won’t be done yet, said spokesperson Henry Bendon." "Early studies projected a paltry 1,100 daily boardings. That figure’s been boosted to 3,350 boardings, comparable to...

My dream of taking the light rail from one end of the golf course to the other is a reality. Not the best use of public funds but Seattle created transit oriented golf like nobody else can. Oh ridership? well a shuttles would have done the same job but this is way cooler