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Baseball is back in town


The Seattle Mariners are back in town through Sunday, May 11 for games against the Texas Rangers and Chicago White Sox.

For the weekday bouts, which are all night games, there is plenty of regular Metro bus service traveling to and from the stadium area. There is also special service to 13 outlying park-and-ride lots after those games. Use Metro’s convenient online Trip Planner to research which routes provide the best connection from your home or office to the ballpark.

For weekend games, there is special service both to and from the park-and-ride lots. The fare for special buses is $3 each way.

See Metro Online for all the Mariners service details.

Be patient – patchy pavement is a just a prelude


Potholes must be repaired before roads can be repaved.

Resurfacing county roadways literally takes a “multi-layered” approach, and sometimes residents are confused by what they see on the surface of the road.

Right now, there are roads throughout the unincorporated areas that look like patchwork quilts with squares and stripes of new, darker asphalt and temporary lane lines and striping. This not the final surface of the road. These are repairs being made by the King County Road Services Division to badly worn sections of the existing surface where the pavement has deteriorated due to heavy traffic loads.

Repairing these areas must be done prior to the roadway being repaved this summer. Once the grinding and patching is done this spring, the paving crews will begin circulating through the county this summer to lay down a smooth layer of new asphalt with freshly applied lane markers.

 

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Updated:  May 05, 2008

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