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Children’s Hospital teams with Metro for first
‘Transit Now’ partnership
partnerships. Transit Now sets aside resources for these partnerships with major employers and cities, potentially leveraging millions in additional funding from other sources to add new service in rapidly expanding employment centers. This first partnership with Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center will create more transit service and more incentives to ride the bus for staff and patients traveling to and from the medical campus in North Seattle. Starting in September, there will be more frequent and convenient bus service running at least every 30 minutes seven days a week to the campus. This added service is expected to encourage even more hospital employees to leave their cars at home. It will also provided benefits for regular riders and potential new passengers on Metro’s routes 25 and 75. As part of the service partnership with Children’s, Metro is adding 63 trips to the routes. More frequent service will be added to the eastern half of Route 75 operating between Northgate, Lake City, Sand Point, and the University District. Trips added to the Route 25 will require just one transfer for those traveling from the Eastside via State Route 520 and Montlake. These additional bus trips will cost about $700,000. With this partnership and others to come, Metro will match the partner’s financial contribution on a two-to-one basis. Children’s will contribute approximately $235,000 annually to help fund the service expansion. Metro hopes its service partnership with Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center is just the first of many partnerships to come, which will be partially funded with revenues generated from Metro’s Transit Now initiative. As part of that initiative, Metro also plans to expand transit service by up to 20 percent countywide over the next ten years. |
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