August 12

Your Bus Routes Will Remain The Same, County Council Passes $20 Car Tab Fee

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Crisis averted, Fremont. Changes to King County Metro service that could have cut up to 600,000 service hours of bus routes, heavily-affecting the 5, 26 and 28, will not happen.

The Metropolitan King County Council will approve $20 car-tab fees to spare Metro bus service from deep cuts.

A vote won’t come until Monday, but suburban Republicans Jane Hague and Kathy Lambert — who had been against bypassing voters — said they would supply the decisive votes in exchange for a package of reforms and efficiencies in Metro.

Those changes include: phasing out Metro’s subsidy for the free-ride zone in downtown Seattle, running smaller buses on less popular routes, and providing $24 in bus tickets to people who pay the fees; people who don’t want those tickets can donate the value to a pool of human-service agencies.

Proposed cuts would have seen drastic cuts to Fremont-area bus routes. Thankfully, they will remains as-is for the foreseeable future.


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