Do you ride Route 120? King County Metro is working with the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) to expand the frequent, reliable RapidRide network to new parts of Seattle and King County. A public survey released today asks riders to prioritize their transportation needs and to identify opportunities for upgrading Metro Route 120 to the future RapidRide H Line. The survey builds on input the community shared in Seattle in spring 2017 and helps the agencies evaluate the performance of future improvements.
Upgrading route 120 achieves goals in the Metro Connects long-range plan and voter-approved Levy to Move Seattle. RapidRide H Line service is scheduled to launch in 2020.
Today, Metro Route 120 is tied for ninth-busiest bus route in King County and carries approximately 8,800 customers each weekday along the corridor between Burien, White Center, West Seattle and Downtown Seattle.
To upgrade the route to RapidRide levels of speed, frequency and reliability, improvements are envisioned along the corridor that include transit priority treatments and RapidRide amenities like unique stations, off-board ORCA fare payment kiosks, and real-time information signs. Metro operates six RapidRide lines across King County with these standard amenities.
This project is funded by King County Metro, the voter-approved Levy to Move Seattle and additional grant funding, which has in part been secured and is also being sought by both Seattle and King County.
Metro and SDOT are working collaboratively to develop a preferred alternative in coming months. Metro is planning community meetings in Burien and White Center during the second week of December. Details will be announced once confirmed.
How do I get involved?
• Take Metro’s RapidRide H Line online survey
• Follow the Metro Matters blog to receive stories and updates
• Learn more about improvements planned for Delridge Way SW in Seattle
About King County Metro RapidRide
King County Metro began RapidRide planning in 2006 and launched the RapidRide A Line in 2010. Today, Metro operates six lines across King County, offering the best of Metro with frequent and reliable service, efficient off-board ORCA fare payment, fast all-door boarding and on-board wifi for riders. RapidRide routes carry more than 67,000 rides each weekday.
Metro Connects, our long-range plan, envisions 26 RapidRide lines by 2040. This includes 19 in King County by 2025 – of which seven are in partnership with the City of Seattle. The future RapidRide G Line in Seattle’s Madison neighborhood is scheduled to begin service in 2020.
I don’t see how one will be able to call it a ‘rapid ride’ as long as it slogs so slowly on Delridge, also backs up getting onto and through the west seattle ‘viaduct’ to 99. Also, like the C’line, perhaps best to break up the 120 so as not to have to go to Burien. They already have express busses and need their own ‘rapid’ line.I’d like to see the 113 beefed up to make a true rapid line from White center that doesn’t go down delridge
Also to add, it takes me well more than an hour on the 120 to go from white center to final stop downtown because of slow going on Delridge, west seattle bridge etc then getting through pioneer area. I can bike it much faster, 30min..
I also found this survey too hard to complete. My biggest concern about the route change is that you will eliminate the northbound stop at Delridge at the SE corner of Trenton. Many seniors use this stop when going downtown from Arrowhead Gardens. We transfer from the 60 to the 120 there, so we do not have to deal with traffic and danger at 15th and Roxbury. At Trenton it is a matter of getting off one bus and getting on the next at the same place without crossing and streets. On the return trip I get off the 120 at Barton next to Rite Aid and just walk a few feet around the corner to the stop for the 60.
The map component to the survey is very tedious to use. With some browsers, it results in very inaccurate responses. The map kept relocating the points I added, putting the pins in very different places from what I selected. So the trip information I gave you is very, very wrong (I think one of my trip origins is in the south end of Lake Washington). The other irritating part of the survey is that a few questions do not have open-ended answers, so I couldn’t leave the correct response (e.g. trip purpose and destination).