SR 522/NE 145th Bus Rapid Transit Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos! 歡迎 ﹗ Thank you for joining us. Gracias por acompañarnos. 感謝加入我們。
Meeting agenda • Open house (30 minutes) • Presentation (20 minutes) • Workshop time at stations (70 minutes): o Visit stations o Join in discussions with project staff o Share your insights
Future service • Establish Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) to the north, east and south of Lake Washington. • Build a light rail network extending from Everett to Tacoma, and from Seattle to Redmond and Issaquah. • Improve access and expand parking at stations.
What is Bus Rapid Transit? BRT is a bus-based high capacity transit system that delivers fast, frequent, accessible and reliable bus service connections and will help riders avoid traffic congestion .
Fast, frequent, reliable service SR 522 BRT infrastructure is designed for fast, frequent and reliable service • 10-minute peak and off-peak for SR 522, 20 minute for Woodinville • Up to 19 hours of service Monday through Saturday • Up to 17 hours on Sunday
Connecting the region • SR 522/NE 145th BRT will connect communities from Shoreline to Woodinville to Link light rail at the Shoreline South/145th Station and to I-405 BRT in Bothell. • I-405 BRT will run from Lynnwood to Burien and connect to Link light rail at Lynnwood, Bellevue and Tukwila.
SR 522/NE 145th BRT Project
Project timeline
Community engagement process
What we’ve heard Highest ranked priorities Key themes: from public input: • Support for transit priority improvements to keep BRT service fast and reliable. 1) Fast service • Questions about property impacts. 2) Reliable service • Request for extended hours of operation and increased frequency of BRT service. 3) Frequent service • Desire for more parking options. 4) Connects to regional transit • Access to BRT stations and parking 5) Minimize environmental impacts locations should be improved by creating better options for walking, biking, rideshare and shuttle services. • Questions about how the new SR 522/NE 145th BRT line might affect existing transit service.
What we’ve heard: Bothell Key themes: “How will the bus navigate through Bothell after leaving 522?” • Desire for additional sidewalks and “Would be great to have the crossings near existing bus stops and 522/145th stop on CC/UWB campus at the transit hub, for connections to future BRT station locations. other buses.” • Support for transit priority improvements on the roadway to ensure fast and reliable BRT service. • Request for ST to consider more frequent BRT service to serve the city’s growth and development. Sustainamania Fair, August 18: • Desire for additional parking at existing park-and-ride locations.
What we’ve heard: Woodinville Key themes: “There are a lot of new apartments being built right now and plans for adding more near the play fields • Request for ST to consider more frequent (tearing down the old school). We're going to need more public transit BRT service to Woodinville to serve the sooner rather than later… With a BRT city’s growth and development. starting here...it'll be busy if it proves it can gets us downtown (via a Link) • Desire for facility improvements at the quicker and faster than the 311.” Woodinville Park-and-Ride to accommodate growing demand for transit. Celebrate Woodinville Festival, August 18: • Questions about existing and future connections to and from places like Kirkland and greater Snohomish County.
From representative to refined • The ST3 Plan established the representative project . • During 2018, we started with the representative project. We are considering and evaluating project • The Board will advance the refined refinements to recommend project into the conceptual design a refined project to the and environment review phase in Sound Transit Board in 2019. early 2019.
Representative project: Bothell • BRT stations at: o Existing UW Bothell/Cascadia College Transit Center o 98th Ave NE/NE 183rd St o 101st Ave NE/NE 185th St • Additional parking north of library (Lot P South) • Westbound BAT lane on SR 522 from NE 180th to 96th Ave NE • BRT service through downtown Bothell along 98th Ave NE and NE 185th to UW Bothell/Cascadia College • Every other bus to Woodinville (includes connection to I-405 BRT at I-405/195th Interchange)
Representative project: Woodinville • Service to Woodinville every 20 minutes, 7 days a week • Does not include plans or funds for capital improvements east of the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Transit Center (e.g., none are included in Woodinville)
Potential project refinements in Bothell • Potential refinements shown on roll plots • Refinements include: o BRT station locations o Parking locations o Roadway elements • Route options for service between Downtown and UW Bothell and Cascadia College • Preliminary high level evaluation of refinement options
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Potential refinements in Woodinville • The project is an opportunity to review how best to connect Woodinville to the high-capacity transit system. • The City of Woodinville, Sound Transit, and King County Metro are working together to evaluate transit options for Woodinville.
Share your thoughts • What are your thoughts about the potential How to comment project refinements being presented and considered in your community? Add your thoughts to: • Do the potential project refinements meet • Maps your future needs? • Comment forms • Agree with something • Which potential project refinements do you someone else wrote? prefer, considering the pros and cons of Write “+1” next to it to add each? your voice • Do you have suggestions for any other potential project refinements that the project team should consider?
Stations to visit • Station 5: Share your thoughts! • Station 1: Welcome! Maps of potential refinements • Station 2: Project • Station 6: Property owners table overview • Station 7: Community • Station 3: Transit engagement process planning • Station 8: Share your thoughts! • Station 4: Refinements Comment table
Stay engaged In person: leave your comments today Online: sr522brt.participate.online Email us: brt@soundtransit.org soundtransit.org/sr522brt 24
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