The Metropolitan King County Council’s Transportation, Economy and Environment Committee will hold a special meeting today (Tuesday) on the potential 17 percent reduction in Metro transit service due to a lack of sustainable revenue.
There’s at open house at 3:30 p.m., followed by public testimony at 4 p.m. at Union Station, 401 S. Jackson St., Seattle.
The committee wants the public to have an opportunity to tell its leaders how transit service cuts, expected to begin in 2014, will affect them. Without action from the state Legislature, King County will begin seeking input this fall on how to cut 600,000 hours of transit service.
A 17 percent reduction in transit service would result in fewer travel options, longer travel times, more crowded buses, and more traffic congestion – impacts that could touch virtually all King County transit riders and many commuters around the region, according to a County Council press release.
Based on its service guideline policies, Metro has identified 65 routes at risk for elimination and 86 routes at risk for service reductions without a sustainable source of funding.
