Metro to add trips on high-demand routes including Ballard’s D-Line

Meghan Walker Ballard

While the majority of bus routes are running on a reduced schedule, King County Metro has added a few extra buses to six routes that are high-demand, including the RapidRide D-Line.

Metro has been enforcing maximum capacity limits since April 22, lowering the maximum capacity to 12 passengers on 40-foot buses, while a maximum of 18 are allowed on 60-foot buses. The added buses will help alleviate routes where coaches are either reaching capacity or passing up customers to maintain social distancing guidelines.

There will be about 15 additional buses on the following routes: 7, 36, 180, and the RapidRide A-, D-, and E-Lines. The buses have been added on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., as that period has the highest ridership and most reports of pass-ups, according to Metro.

Metro has also started rolling out new seat signs that are intended to keep distance between riders. The signs (below) will feature a no-sitting symbol and large-font text to alert all riders.

The signs will be placed on the seatbacks, which Metro says will still allow family members to sit near one another. You can expect the signs to roll out in the next two weeks on Metro buses, water taxis, the Seattle streetcars, and Sound Transit buses and light rail.

Buses remain free for all riders through May 31. To check your route’s current reduced schedule, click here.

23 thoughts to “Metro to add trips on high-demand routes including Ballard’s D-Line”

  1. Thereby answering the question: how many COVID Junkies can you squeeze onto a bus?

    Yeah, we’ll be driving to the office once we are allowed to return.

    Thanks, but no thanks Metro.

    1. Well look at you, so fortunate enough to be able to take your own car to the office after things open up again, it must be nice being above so many others? Are you aware that there are many people who don’t have that option, homeless or not, and COVID or not? Oh never mind, it’s only all about you and your creepy homeless fetish and childish trolling, right?

      1. We’ll take the bus if they start enforcing fares and removing bums (of any kind) who refuse to pay, wear masks or socially distance.

        If you want the working class to use the bus, you would support removal of junkies and bums too, but apparently you don’t care about the spread of COVID among the working class. You’ll sacrifice them to your Bum Preservation Theory.

        1. In what reality do you live in? Do you not understand that the working class DO actually use the bus everyday, COVID or not? You clearly do not understand how the real world actually is, and that not all working-class people have the luxury of a car, cab or Uber/Lyft. You also clearly don’t understand that the working class are capable of spreading COVID as well. But I’m sure it just sounds like a better narrative to someone like you, with a creepy homeless fetish and narrow-minded view of the world, that only homeless are capable of spreading a virus.

          1. They’ve done a bang up job spreading Hepatitis A as they pass 40s around to each other on Ballard Commons, not giving a sh*t about social distancing rules for COVID as well.

            Maybe you can train them to behave better? St Luke’s certainly has failed.

          2. Wow, you’ve really put Dan Strauss on notice with that stable genius of a username!

            He must be shaking in his shoes wherever he’s hiding!

        2. Did you miss that they were making fun of Paintking by mocking a common refrain of his, and that they weren’t endorsing his nonsense?

          1. Aurox, yes he definitely missed that. It’s well known that elenchos2 lives in a similar alternate reality as well so I expected that from him, and they are most likely the same pathetic troll.

          2. Paintking is NO E2, sorry. I happen to be a conservative, something you’ve been told about by turds like Obama etc. E2 is a crazy leftist. But thanks for telling me I am living in so many tiny skulls full of mush though.

      3. if you wanted a car you would and could have one. i get your unhappy and complaining, you think, eases the pain. Of course it doesn’t. Have a MAGAnificent day

      1. ignorant folks like you get people killed. A mask is to STOP you from spreading the Virus, you don’t know you have to someone else. I know its stupid of me to try and explain reality to you and your bozo butt buddy paintthing. I am bored and its free

          1. Strange username for someone who doesn’t care about their neighbors.

            If you look at what countries successfully contained the virus at significantly less deaths and cost than the US you will see that most of them have widespread mask wearing.

        2. Yeah, it’s probably impossible to explain it to someone so ignorant that they believe the entire medical industry, and scientists throughout the world, haven’t figured out that “masks don’t do jack except make uneducated people feel safer”.

          1. The facade is crumbling. Look at today’s Seattle times story on the most recent CDC analysis, all cause death rate in WA is flat pre- and post-covid. Same in OR, CA, TX, FL, etc… explain that.

          2. Big spike in all cause death rate in NY, MA, CT, NJ, but oddly not DC. All places social distanced, encouraged mask use, etc. NY and DC both have major mass transit. What’s the deal doctor?

            Oh yeah, WA Dept of Health today acknowledged the majority of WA deaths were associated with long term care living facilities… perhaps another piece of the puzzle internet sleuths!

    2. WTF does a mask do? They are the newest virtue signal and apparently adult binkies too. Alone in a boat or walking down the street and you need a mask? LOL. Simon says wipe your asses. Simon says jump real high. Simon says allow drug users in the park. Simon says vote “d”. Simon says………………………….

  3. Glad their putting signs on busses for social distancing. Because everyone knows how respectful meth and heroin addicts are about rules so everything will be fine. Great plan.

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