The frequency of trips on several popular Maple Leaf commuter and weekend bus routes changes in the morning.
The biggest change here will be to Route 77, which will no longer go through the downtown transit tunnel.
Other changes affect the 73, 41, 66E, 67 and 68 routes.
For Route 77:
Southbound service to downtown Seattle will operate via Convention Place, Union St, 2nd Ave and 2nd Ave Ext S. These routes will serve the bus stops on Convention Place at Union St, on Union St at 6th and 4th avenues, on 2nd Ave at Marion and James streets, and on 2nd Ave Ext S at S Jackson St.
Northbound the bus stops on 4th Ave S at S Jackson (next to Union Station), on 4th Ave at James, Madison and University streets, and on Pike St at 6th Ave.
For more information check Metro’s website here.
Sadly, you are probably right. Sound Transit apparently gets to do what it wants, and that includes messing up the buses in the north end for their monster bus stations. I’ve been riding in the BUS tunnel since it was built, and the trains have been wreaking havoc ever since they closed the tunnel for two years to re-engineer the train rails.
There is a public hearing for transit on Oct 6 at the moutaineers at 6:30pm: https://metrofutureblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/link-connections-king-county-council-public-hearing-tuesday-oct-6/
I have gotten a response from the king county executive’s office (kcexec@kingcounty.gov). I also emailed the mayer, Seattle Transportation Benefit District (seattletbd@seattle.gov – basically Seattle City Council), and the comment form on the metro transit website.
The change was pushed by prioritizing sound transit in the tunnel over the rest of Seattle. I expect that what officials will care about most is that this decreases transit access to the outskirts of South lake union by not stopping in the convention place bus tunnell station
I doubt they’ll fix it, but at least the Transit App will let you see arrival times for both stops on one screen.
I wrote them about this change, because if I want the 77 and miss it, I’ll take the 73. Now, I’ll have to run between two stops to do this. I haven’t heard back.
No, it does. Metro has a strange aversion to listing all the stops on their website, but OBA shows them all:
http://pugetsound.onebusaway.org/where/standard/#m%28route%29route%281_100271%29
It appears that the afternoon/evening northbound 77 express will no longer stop at NE 85th and NE 90th Streets. Instead,
“Route 77 Express to North City: Makes no stops between 15th Ave NE & NE 80th St and 15th Ave NE & NE 120th St EXCEPT on 15th Ave NE at NE 88th St, NE 95th St, NE 100th St, NE Northgate Way and NE 115th St.”