INBOX: King County Metro will offer free bus and streetcar rides on New Year’s Eve starting at 7pm. Metro will provide extra night trips to Night Owl Routes. Link light rail service will also be extended: kingcounty.gov/elected/execut
Conversation
The transit agencies began extended service and free transit last year:
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The Urbanist had directly appealed to Metro and Sound Transit to offer fare-free and extended service in 2016:
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In pressing for extended Link light rail service on NYE and other nights, we engaged in an investigation of what if any obstacles that there might be to it. Nothing operationally insurmountable was the result:
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