Seattle’s Department of Transportation (SDOT) is holding a Walk Bike Ride (WBR) Challenge this summer. The WBR Challenge is an effort to encourage people to walk, bike or ride public transit more often to get active and connect with the community. After signing up for the WBR Challenge, participants receive weekly emails with tips on walking, biking and riding. They can also track their individual progress and the program’s collective impact online. Participants who switch at least two car trips per week to walking, biking or transit will earn chances to win the following prizes: Electric bike from e-Moto Apple iPad Night stay at Pan Pacific Hotel in South…
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Walk Bike Ride Challenge encourages fewer car trips with prizes and a neighborhood competition
Proposed Metro service cuts may eliminate Routes 26, 82, 242 and reduce or revise Routes 16, 26 Express, 48, 358
photo credit: Atomic Taco In order to fund current levels of bus service in 2012 and 2013, Metro Transit says that it needs additional revenue. Without extra funds, a total of 600,000 hours of transit service would be eliminated over the next two years. This is about 17 percent of Metro’s entire system, but it would affect up to 80 percent of bus riders. “That means as many as four out of five people will have to walk further, wait longer, make an extra transfer, stand in the aisle, or stand on the curb and see fully loaded buses pass them by,” reads an information bulletin from Metro [pdf]. “And it will force tens…
Mayor McGinn wants to hear your neighborhood and public transportation safety concerns
Today (Wednesday, March 23, 2011) Mayor Mike McGinn announced a new tool to gather input on public safety from Seattle residents. According to a news release sent from the Office of the Mayor, the online survey, drafted by a team of graduate students at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, will help determine residents’ primary public safety concerns in their own neighborhoods and on public transportation. Previous public safety surveys conducted by the City focused on citywide perceptions. “With this survey,” the news release reads, “the City hopes to have a snapshot of perceptions of…
Metro changing some bus routing and stops
On Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, King County Metro Transit is changing two dozen bus routes. Downtown routing and bus stops will be updated in order to keep people moving during long-term construction along the Seattle waterfront and in the SODO area. “Bus riders across Metro’s service area should check winter schedules for the routes they use most often to see what’s new,” a news release from Metro advises. “They can prepare by picking up a new blue timetable and the Special Rider Alert brochure, which is also posted on Metro Online. Or, use the online Trip Planner for some advance research….
Metro advises bus riders to prepare for snow showers
Snow showers are in the forecast for tonight (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010) and tomorrow morning. King County Metro Transit is urging bus riders to prepare by signing up for Transit Alerts and by checking the snow routing for the buses they will ride tomorrow. Updates to online information will begin at 4 a.m. tomorrow. Metro is operating with a reduced schedule this week, which means some commuter and school-oriented routes do not operate, and other routes have individual trips canceled, indicated by an “H” in the timetables. Current weather forecasts indicate if snow falls Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in the lower elevations of…
