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Big changes ahead for Redmond Park-and-Ride
For almost 30 years, the park-and-ride lot located in the heart of
downtown Redmond has been a real workhorse for
King County Metro
Transit. Now, with three facility upgrades in the works, it is poised to
become a “show horse.”
The estimated $10 million budget for the Redmond Park-and-Ride garage
includes planning, engineering, design, and construction of a 386-stall
parking structure on 1.4 acres of the existing lot. The remaining
133,000 square feet of the current lot is being sold to a private
developer for the residential development. Proceeds from that sale will
fund the garage project.
Planned features include: six passenger-loading bus spaces; six bus-layover spaces (all off-street); two spaces for Access Transportation; improved pedestrian connections with wider sidewalks along Northeast 83rd Street; a new mid-block crosswalk; larger, customized passenger shelters; information kiosks; and new landscaping to blend into the nearby city skate park. There will also be improvements to create better sight distances for buses using the turnaround, and fewer vehicle/bus/pedestrian conflicts by removing the western park-and-ride driveway. The addition of off-street layover space and the transit turnaround will significantly improve transit efficiency. These two elements allow Metro to invest service hours in carrying passengers instead of “deadheading” empty buses to satellite layover locations. The design for this project has been closely coordinated with the city of Redmond and Sound Transit over the last three years. The community provided input and feedback to the design team through the city’s Parks and Design Review Boards. The total budget for the transit center project is approximately $7.2 million from a combination of Sound Transit local funding and federal grants. The project should be completed by the end of 2007. Transit-oriented development (TOD)
The western portion of the existing park-and-ride lot is being sold to
Trammell Crow Residential for development as transit-oriented, mixed-use
development. The county has found that TOD housing increases
opportunities for people to take a bus, vanpool, carpool, bicycle, or
walk to take care of their everyday needs. |
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