[Transit] We did it! Route “47” is saved!

[Wes Mills]

Absolutely agreed. My three reasons to push were: access (Capitol Hill is, it turns out, a hill! And a steep one at that!), trolley preservation, and fairness for lack of another word (we can't just suspend service and then cancel it years after anyone could have ridden it).

Metro saw the light and saw it our way and that's awesome. A win for BATS!

On Thu, Feb 8, 2024, at 12:25, cole at colegleason.com wrote:
> That’s great news, thanks for sharing Wes! 
> 
> It’s also great to see an existing trolley bus route resume service, since I would hate to see that existing infrastructure languish.
> On Feb 8, 2024 at 10:48 AM -0800, Wes Mills <wesmills at wesmills.com>, wrote:
>> https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro/travel-options/bus/rapidride/g-line
>> 
>> Metro is going forward with “option B”, which would officially retire the route 47 number as a standalone entity but also extend some trips of the route 3 to cover this area.  (These trips on the 3 are currently the “downtown only” ones that are roughly every half hour from 7a to 7p.)
>> 
>> We got back what we had pre-pandemic.  That’s a good thing.  Now the area can be part of the broader network and not lose its service “forever” without a peep.
>> 
>> Thank you to everyone who commented and worked in support!
>> 
>> Wes
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