Tag: king county metro

August 4, 2017

You can now take a bus hiking on weekends, and there are spaces for bikes

King County Metro and King County Parks have partnered to launch a new transit-to-trailheads service that starts tomorrow. And each shuttle will have two spaces for bicycles. The shuttle starts at Issaquah Transit Center and makes stops at trailheads throughout the “Issaquah Alps” at Margaret’s Way, Poo Poo Point and East Sunset Way before swinging…
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tagged: issaquah, king county metro, king county parks, transit to trails
May 10, 2016

Person biking critically injured in collision at 65th and Ravenna Blvd- UPDATED

A 48-year-old man biking in Ravenna was critically injured in a collision with someone driving a King County Metro VanPool vehicle this morning on NE 65th Street near Ravenna Boulevard. Though few details have been released, Seattle Police say the person biking and a person driving the van collided shortly before 7 a.m. KIRO TV…
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tagged: injuries, king county metro, ne 65th, ravenna, ravenna blvd, spd, vanpool
May 18, 2015

Watch: Khatsini explains the power of the bike/bus combo

King County has been producing a series of short videos highlighting different ways of getting around town by walking, biking and transit. We already pointed you to their video featuring family cycling and Greenwood’s G&O Family Cyclery. In their latest video (filmed months ago, but just now released), Khatsini Simani, former education programs staffer at…
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tagged: bike/bus combo, khatsini simani, king county metro
May 4, 2015

Man biking at Rainier/Jackson seriously injured in collision with Metro bus

Police are investigating a collision Monday morning that sent a 26-year-old man on a bike to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. A Metro trolly bus and the injured man collided shortly before 8 a.m. A reader reported (caution: graphic images) that Medics loaded him onto a stretcher and rushed him to the hospital with a police…
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tagged: first hill streetcar, injuries, jackson, king county metro
November 5, 2014

Seattle votes to charge $60 per car to fund transit

Seattle finally passed a Transportation Benefit District Proposition 1. After a very disappointing loss in King County during the spring, Seattle decided to run its own version of the car tabs and sales tax measure intended to avoid transit cuts and add new service. Early returns show the measure winning big 59 to 41 percent…
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tagged: 2014 general election, king county metro, transportation benefits district
April 7, 2014

Vote Yes on Prop 1 (duh) + Ballot Party Wednesday

At a time when King County’s population is booming, we need our transit service to boom with it. Cutting Metro service by 17 percent is simply not an option. Your ballot should be in your mailbox very soon if it is not there already. It’s a short ballot, and should only take you a minute…
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tagged: events, king county metro, the hoot hoots