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List of King County Metro facilities

King County Metro is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, including the city of Seattle in the Puget Sound region. It operates a fleet of 1,396 buses, serving 115 million rides at over 8,000 bus stops in 2012, making it the eighth-largest transit agency in the United States.[1][2] The agency has seven bases spread throughout its 2,134-square-mile (5,530 km2) operating area[3][4] and has 131 park and rides for commuters.[2]

Bases

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Name Image Location Year Opened Notes
Central Campus Atlantic Base 1555 Airport Way S, Seattle[5] 1941[6] Only base that serves electric trolley buses[6]
Atlantic Maintenance 1555 Airport Way South, Seattle[7]
Central Base 640 S Massachusetts St, Seattle[5] 1941[6]
Central/Atlantic/Ryerson Operations[8] 1270 6th Ave S, Seattle[7]
Communications Control Center 1505 6th Ave S, Seattle[7] 2007[9]
Marketing Distribution Center 1523 6th Ave South, Seattle[7]
Power Distribution 2255 4th Avenue South, Seattle[7]
Ryerson Base 1220 4th Ave S, Seattle[5] 1987[10] Named for the Ryerson steel mill that formerly occupied the site.[11]
Tire and Millwright Shop 1555 Airport Way South, Seattle[7]
East Campus Bellevue Base 1790 124th Ave NE, Bellevue[5] 1983[citation needed]
East Base 1975 124 Ave NE, Bellevue[5] 1977[12]
South Base 12100 East Marginal Way S, Tukwila[5] 1978[12] More coaches here than any other base[8] (as of September 2003).
Component Supply Center 12200 East Marginal Way South, Tukwila[7]
Training and Safety Center King County Metro Safety & Training Center Sign 3401 S Norfolk St, Seattle, WA 98118 Operator training, new equipment qualifications, and retraining.
North Base 2160 N 163rd St, Shoreline[5] 1992[13][14] Built mostly underground[13]

Atlantic, Central, and Ryerson Bases are located close together near Stadium Station south of downtown Seattle and are known as the Central Campus.[8][15] East and Bellevue bases comprise the East Campus[8] and are located nearby each other in north Bellevue. The South and East transit facilities finished an ADA retrofit in 2001.[citation needed]

Other

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Name Image Location Year Opened Notes
Central Maintenance 640 South Massachusetts, Seattle[7]
Employee Parking Garage 1505 6th Avenue South, Seattle[7]
Redmond Van Pool Center 18655 NE Union Hill Road, Redmond[7] 2002[16][verification needed] Van Pool van storage[17]
South Facilities 11911 East Marginal Way South, Tukwila[7]

Transit centers

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While Downtown Seattle is Metro's main transit hub, the transit centers act as smaller regional hubs and are served by many bus routes. Some transit centers also offer a park-and-ride facility. Metro operates out of several transit centers located throughout King County:[18]

Image Name Location Year Opened Notes
Auburn Station A St SW & 2nd St SW, Auburn 2000[19]
Aurora Village Transit Center 1524 N 200th St, Shoreline 1985[10]
Bellevue Transit Center 10850 NE 6th St, Bellevue 1985[10] Owned 51% by Sound Transit, 49% by Metro[18]
Burien Transit Center 14900 4th Avenue SW, Burien 2009[20][21] 5 electric vehicle recharging stations[22]
Eastgate Park & Ride 14200 SE Eastgate Way, Eastgate 2004[23] 3 electric vehicle recharging stations[24]
Federal Way Transit Center 31621 23rd Ave S, Federal Way 2006[25]
Issaquah Transit Center 1050 17th Ave NW, Issaquah 2008[26]
Issaquah Highlands Transit Center 1755 Highland Dr., Issaquah 2003 (interim lot)[27]
Kent Station Transit Center 301 Railroad Ave N, Kent 2001
Kirkland Transit Center 3rd Street & Park Lane, Kirkland 1986[28] Renovated 2011[28][29]
Mount Baker Transit Center 2824 Rainier Ave S, Mount Baker, Seattle 2009[30] Connection to Mount Baker light rail station
Northgate Transit Center 10200 1st Ave NE, Northgate, Seattle 1992[31]
Overlake Transit Center 15590 NE 36th St, Overlake 2002[32]
Redmond Transit Center 16160 NE 83rd St, Redmond 2008[18]
Renton Transit Center S 2nd St & Burnett Ave S, Renton 2001[33]
Totem Lake Transit Center 120th Ave NE & NE 128th St, Kirkland 2008[34] At Evergreen Medical Center

References

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  1. ^ Metro Accountability Center. "Ridership - Annual Performance Measures". King County Metro. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Executive Summary" (PDF). King County Metro Transit 2013 Service Guidelines Report (Report). King County Metro. November 2013. p. 4. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  3. ^ K. Chandler, K. Walkowicz (April 2006). "King County Metro Transit Hybrid Articulated Buses: Interim Evaluation Results" (PDF). Alternative Fuels Data Center.
  4. ^ "EUROTECH'S DURAMAR AND KING COUNTY METRO – BRINGING RAPID SERVICE AND RELIABILITY TO RIDERS". EUROTECH.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Addresses of Metro Bases" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
  6. ^ a b c ""Expanding Atlantic/Central Bases". Metro Transit. Transit Facility News. 2001, Summer" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-10-11. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Invitation to Bid" (PDF). King County Metro. 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  8. ^ a b c d "OBS/CCS Business Requirements" (PDF). King County Metro. September 2003. Retrieved 2009-05-21.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "A Tradition of Performance - King County Department of Transportation". www.metrokc.gov. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  10. ^ a b c King County Metro. Transit Milestones 1980s
  11. ^ Foster, George (August 12, 2001). "Getting There: The only mystery is why bus doesn't stop". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  12. ^ a b King County Metro. Transit Milestones 1970s
  13. ^ a b "Slabs Of Concrete Today; A Bus Barn Soon". Carpio, Nina. The Seattle Times. 1990-02-07.
  14. ^ "New Metro Bus Base Will Open June 8". Aweeka, Charles. The Seattle Times. 1991-05-17.
  15. ^ "Metro's 'central campus'—a decade of transformation". King County Metro. January 2010. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  16. ^ "Assessor information for parcel number 0625069016". King County GIS Center. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  17. ^ "RESOLUTION: KING COUNTY METRO TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, FILE NO. L090012" (PDF). 2009-02-17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
  18. ^ a b c "2007 Annual Management Report" (PDF). King County Department of Transportation. 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
  19. ^ "Transit". City of Auburn, Washington. Archived from the original on 2009-07-17. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  20. ^ "Burien Transit Center". King County Metro. 2008-12-29. Archived from the original on June 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  21. ^ "Burien Transit Center". King County Metro. 2009-05-25. Archived from the original on 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  22. ^ "Park & Ride Lots - South Seattle". King County Metro. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  23. ^ "New Eastgate Park-and-Ride garage opens June 5". King County Metro. 2006-05-24. Retrieved 2009-07-16.[dead link]
  24. ^ "Park & Ride Lots - East Side". King County Metro. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  25. ^ Sound Transit. Federal Way Transit Center/S. 317th Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ "Metro Schedule and Route Revisions, May 2008". King County Metro. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  27. ^ "Unique partnership brings Sound Transit's ST Express to Issaquah Highlands" (Press release). Sound Transit. September 24, 2003. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  28. ^ a b Sound Transit. Kirkland Transit Center Archived 2011-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ "Kirkland Transit Center temporary closure". King County Metro. Archived from the original on 2010-10-18. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  30. ^ "Mount Baker Transit Center Opens Sept 19". King County Metro. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
  31. ^ Lane, Bob (May 27, 1992). "Not Quite Your Average Bus Stop -- Design And Usefulness Meet At Metro's New Northgate Transfer Center". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
  32. ^ Sound Transit. Overlake Transit Center/NE 40th Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
  33. ^ "New Renton Transit Center & Parking Garage Options". King County Metro. 2001. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
  34. ^ "Totem Lake Transit Center/Evergreen Medical Center". Sound Transit. Archived from the original on 2009-05-21. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
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