Metro’s thrice-a-year service change is June 8, and we have new green timetables and website updates for riders to review. 17 routes are affected.
One change is expected to help morning commuters using the RapidRide C Line from West Seattle.
RapidRide C and D lines: A new southbound weekday trip to Westwood Village leaving Bay 3 at the Alaska Junction at 5:12 a.m. will be added. Also, in an effort to balance passenger loads, the RapidRide C and D line schedules will be adjusted during the morning peak period.
What does this mean?
- We’re adding an early morning trip to help connect with service to the airport.
- The other changes are to actual trip times northbound from West Seattle to downtown. The net number of trips is identical (except for the partial added early morning trip), while having more buses run during the period where ridership data showed more need.
This has the effect of allowing 11 trips instead of 10 between 7:45 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. (when passenger loads were higher) and 12 trips instead of 13 between 4:59 a.m. and 6:59 a.m. (when passenger loads were lower).
Another way of looking at it, after June 8, C Line weekday buses to downtown Seattle are scheduled:
- about every 8-12 minutes from 5:30-9:24 a.m.
- about every 15 minutes starting at 9:24 a.m. (15-minute service previously started at 8:39 a.m.)
Updated schedules will be posted online later Friday (June 7), and riders can view the adjusted trip times to be ready for Monday. Though the RapidRide C/D line service is interconnected, D Line morning trips are staying roughly the same as they were since February.
Since launching, we continue to closely monitor operations and watch for opportunities to better serve passengers within our budget.
We appreciate everyone’s continued support and ridership, and ask for patience as riders and drivers transition to the adjusted trip schedule.
Thank you for tweaking the service and extending the 8-12 min gaps untold after 9:00. Helps a lot! Love the RRC!
Well as a disabled working rider of the C line it would be great if it stopped at the Jefferson Sq stop and the QFC stops as nothing stops there going south of the Alaska Jct. yet there are 3 buses that stop there all going north of the Alaska Jct. This to me shows that metro really doesn’t care about the disabled riders in West Seattle as alot of them live south of the Alaska Jct in West Seattle. Just asking if metro ever plans on doing anything to correct this unballance in service to the disabled here in West Seattle. Even if metrop only had the C line stop like every other route going through that area as something is better than not giving the disabled and older people living south of the Alaska Jct no service.
Thanks,
Michael Ford