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Long-Range Plan | 2016
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CONNECTS
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is King County Metro Transit’s vision for bringing you more service, more choices, and one easy-to-use system over the next 25 years.
METRO
CONNECTS
People across King County helped shape this vision.
In 2015 and 2016, we invited transit customers, bus drivers, King County cities, Sound Transit and other transportation agencies, businesses and more to join us in imagining our future public transportation system. Hundreds of participants shared their needs, hopes, and ideas for getting around better.
How did people weigh in?
Attended community open houses
1,5009,700
Responded to our online survey
75
Technical Advisory Committee participants Meetings
15
Community Advisory Group members
259
MeetingsVisited our website
55K
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More service, more choices, one system
The opening of the Link light-rail stations at Capitol Hill and the University of Washington—with more frequent Metro bus service connecting more neighborhoods to high-capacity transit—is a tangible example of how we are creating an interconnected transportation system that gives more people more choices to get to more places on time.It’s a preview of the future of transportation in King County, and this long-range vision—METRO CONNECTS—is how we will get there.This vision is intended to be our atlas as we create an integrated transportation system that connects people to opportunity, protects our environment, and knits together our growing cities.Decades of innovation at Metro give us a strong foundation to build on, including the highly successful RapidRide lines, one of the greenest bus fleets in the United States, the ORCA card system that has made fare payment more efficient and convenient, and the nation’s leading low-income fare program, ORCA LIFT.The plan is shaped by input we received from passengers, King County cities, Sound Transit and other transportation agencies, businesses and other stakeholders—all working together to achieve a shared vision of better mobility in our region.Together we will turn that vision into reality. Dow Constantine