The addition of RapidRide G Line to Seattle’s transit network led to nearly 5,000 additional trips that weren’t happening in the corridor before. The latest numbers illustrate the big gains that can come with service and frequency improvements.
More than 4,000 riders jumped on a RapidRide G bus on an average weekday in October, strong performance for a brand new bus route. Trending up, the G Line has room to grow.
The G Line on Madison Street got off to a rocky start with significant bus bunching combined with major delays for riders. There are already signs of improvement.
King County Metro’s eighth RapidRide line, Madison Street’s G Line, launches Saturday with some of the most robust speed and reliability features of any bus route in Puget Sound.
The Urbanist is hosting an opening day celebration for the RapidRide G Line, which commences service early Saturday morning. Our event is from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at Stoup Capitol Hill.
Ten years in the making, Seattle’s most robust bus rapid transit line ever will start running this fall between Downtown Seattle and Madison Valley.
With the launch of RapidRide G service later this year, a whole slate of changes to nearby routes are planned pending adoption by the King County Council. Nearby routes see frequency reductions, with the boosted Route 60 an exception.
The proposal resurrecting Route 47 brings deeper cuts to Routes 10, 11, and 49, which seem unlikely to curry support. King County Metro is wrapping up its second round of proposed bus restructures around the forthcoming RapidRide G Line. In September 2024, the new line is supposed to launch with
RapidRide G Line will have lots of capacity during the day, but evenings and connections get dicey. Next year, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) and King County Metro will cut the ribbon on the RapidRide G Line. The change is one of the most substantial overhauls of a bus
If you travel around Capitol Hill, the Central District, and Madison Valley, you’ve likely seen construction on E Madison Street in preparation for King County Metro Transit’s RapidRide G, slated to come online in Fall of 2024. For most of the day on weekdays and Saturdays, RapidRide G
Concrete is not flowing in King County and several high-profile infrastructure projects threaten to be delayed as a result. Concrete mixer drivers are striking for higher compensation on par with other building trade unions and a health plan that lowers cost for retired members, but the six largest concrete companies
The long-awaited RapidRide G Line project is finally getting underway. The 2.1-mile line will run from 1st Avenue in Downtown Seattle to Martin Luther King Jr Way in Madison Valley, providing very frequent service along the Madison Street corridor in 2024. Along the way, the line will serve First
Joe Mayes waited at the Route 7 bus stop on Rainier Avenue S and Mt. Baker Boulevard on New Year’s Day, casually greeting people as they crossed the street in his direction. Mayes, 54, grew up in the Central Area before his family moved to Skyway, an unincorporated part
Back in 2018, we reported that Mayor Durkan’s “Move Seattle Reset” had cut Route 40, Route 44, and Route 48 from RapidRide plans, instead promising lesser improvements. This month, we learned that King County Metro and the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) have also dropped the Rainier Avenue corridor
On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met to decide on the fate of more than a dozen paused capital project actions. Nine capital project actions were identified for advancement and funding with agency staff directed to prepare the actions for final approval. The board also approved the annual
Fares are coming back to King County Metro buses in October. The agency has been busy putting September service changes into effect and rolling out new onboard Covid-safety features. To lower transmission risk, Metro is not doing fare enforcement for the remainder of the year. Metro also has indicated programmatic
On Thursday, the Sound Transit Board of Directors met for another briefing on paused actions from the capital expansion program. Staff recommended executing $76.5 million in project actions, but Sound Transit funds for upgrades to RapidRide C and D Line (promised in Sound Transit 3) and RapidRide G Line
Seattle has advanced toward receiving a federal grant that would cover nearly half of the project’s $133.4 million price tag. Back in 2010 when King County Metro Transit started service on RapidRide Line A, which runs from Tukwila to Federal Way, transportation planners probably never dreamt poor Line
More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took in light of the pandemic. Projects that were not already under construction or not yet underway in another planning phase, were put on pause. Projects that
The rumors of the Move Seattle Reset have been swirling for months, but it remained unclear what that would mean beyond a sort of vague watering down of upgrades due to an estimated $96 million shortfall. Now it’s become clearer that the City is planning to abandon three of
$96 million dollars could be the new overall budget cap for all seven corridors that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) promised voters it would upgrade to prioritize transit, according to the newly released findings from the reassessment of the nine-year Move Seattle levy that has been taking place over
Seattle’s annual traffic report includes a map of the locations where pedestrian collisions occurred, with the number increasing with the size of the blue dot. Looking at 2016’s map, the data is much like previous years: it shows that pedestrians are most frequently involved in collisions in the
On October 14th, former Seattle City Councilmember Nick Licata wrote a blog post that may mislead enough people to stop an excellent local transit project that Seattle Subway has supported since its inception. Since publishing his post, “The Center City Connector Streetcar–A Solution Looking for A Problem,” the Seattle
When the latest designs for Madison Street’s BRT line were released in March, street safety advocates were dismayed at how the bike and pedestrian safety components of the project seem to be diminishing after every step of design work. In particular, the central bike component for the project, protected
The RapidRide G Line (aka Madison BRT) is in the final stretch of the planning process. Public comment on a draft proposal has closed, sending the project back to engineers and planners to make final tweaks to the design prior to construction. The 2.3-mile enhanced bus line spanning First
Seattle is moving full steam ahead on its RapidRide network planning program, a bold initiative to provide high-quality frequent bus service across the city. Seven new lines could be added by 2024, building upon the three-line network already covering portions of Northeast, Central, and West Seattle. In February, the Seattle
This week, in an online open house, the Seattle Department of Transportation is presenting the latest update to the plans for the $120 million Madison Street improved transit corridor, recently announced as the RapidRide G line. The plans show a block-by-block design with several highlighted features that have changed since
Relative to other medium-sized American cities, Seattle has a good bus network. What it doesn’t have is a true bus rapid transit (BRT) line. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) wants to change that with “Madison Bus Rapid Transit,” as it has labeled a new project in a corridor
Here’s what to look for when you provide comments at the final Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) online before August 16th. Madison BRT is intended as a Complete Street. Complete Streets provide fair access to the street for all people, whatever their transit mode. That is one reason the
On August 3rd and 4th, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) held public open houses where they unveiled the 30% design for its Madison Street Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Identified in the 2012 Seattle Transit Master Plan as a priority corridor for High Capacity Transit and later designated as
On Monday night, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) held its fourth open house on the $120 million bus rapid transit (BRT) project planned for Madison Street. SDOT staff and consultants from Nelson Nygaard chatted with a packed house about recent survey results, technical details, and the latest concept design.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) will be hosting an open house tonight to present the Preferred Design Concept for the Madison BRT line. The corridor extends from the Downtown Seattle waterfront all the way east to MLK Jr. Way in Madison Valley. Identified in the 2012 Seattle Transit Master
The folks at the Seattle Depart of Transportation released an online public survey yesterday to gain public input on the Madison BRT project which will connect the Downtown Seattle Waterfront with First Hill and Madison Valley. (We previously covered this project back in November.) This survey primarily concerns the potential
This past Wednesday and Thursday (November 19th & 20th) Seattle’s Department of Transportation (SDOT) and their consultants from Nelson\Nygaard held a number of neighborhood workshops as part of their public outreach for the Madison BRT project. The workshops were divided into the Madison/12th Avenue neighborhood, First Hill