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Baseball is back

Starting this week, the Seattle Mariners are back in action for the 2008 baseball season at Safeco Field. Metro is a great way to get to the April home games.

Photo: M's centerfielder Ichiro Suzuki.

For weekday games, there is plenty of regular Metro bus service traveling to and from the stadium area. Use Metro’s convenient online Trip Planner to research which routes provide the best connection from your home or office to the ballpark.

For night and weekend games during the three April homestands, there is special service to 13 outlying park-and-ride lots. The fare for special buses is $3 each way. This premium park-and-ride service operates after weeknight games and both before and after weekend games. It is not available for weekday games that begin before 5 p.m.

This month, the Mariners will have home games: March 31-April 2 against the Rangers; April 11-15 versus the Angels and Royals; and then April 23-27 with the Orioles and Oakland A’s.

See Metro Online for all the Mariners service details.

Late snowfall keeps county road crews busy

One – hopefully – last blast of winter hit King County late last week and overstayed its welcome into the weekend. It brought along a slushy snowfall in many areas of the county, and more work for the King County Road Services Division.

Keeping up with the weather was like “playing a game of tic-tac-toe with snowplows,” said Leo Griffin, the assistant operations manager for the Roads Maintenance Section.

On Thursday morning and again mid-day Friday, wet, fat flakes chilled the areas around Black Diamond and Enumclaw. The Roads Division went to 24-hour staffing in southeast King County, and crews geared up in anticipation of more snow countywide on Friday morning. But, the storms paced themselves and continued to churn out snow in different locations at different times.

One of the busiest stretches was Saturday night, when most of East King County from the Snohomish County line to Interstate 90 was seeing snowfall. Griffin said crews worked through the night keeping major thoroughfares plowed, and finally wrapped up around 8 a.m. Sunday morning.

“The one good thing about this snowfall was that it melted pretty quickly,” he said. “But, we’re all hoping we’re done with snow until next winter.”

 
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Updated:  April 01, 2008

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