{"id":5191,"date":"2013-05-12T18:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2013-11-19T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:05:03","slug":"public-hearing-for-metro-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/05\/12\/public-hearing-for-metro-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Hearing for Metro Cuts! [Tues, May 17]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to annual budget shortfalls, King County Metro is facing possible route eliminations and\/or reductions in the near future. Although ridership has continually increased, funding for King County Metro&#8217;s services have continued to fall faster than revenues have risen.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5192 img-fluid \" alt=\"Metro Map of Bus routes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/Metro-Cuts-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What does this mean for me?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">1\/3 of Metro&#8217;s routes (65 routes) may be eliminated, and another 40% (86 routes) may be reduced or rerouted. The remaining 1\/3 of routes that did not change would see a significant increase in passengers whose routes were eliminated or altered.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">People who depend on consistent and convenient routes to work and school may have to transfer multiple times.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Buses serving less popular communities, particularly in East King County, would face significant reductions or route eliminations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Affected buses serving Bellevue College<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To be Eliminated<\/strong>: 210, 211, 215, 216<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be Reduced\/Revised<\/strong>: 221, 226, 241, 245, 246, 271<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Want to make your voice heard? A public hearing is scheduled for comments from the public:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, May 14th<\/p>\n<p>3:30 PM [Open House and Briefing]<\/p>\n<p>4:00 PM &#8211; 8:00 PM <span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">[Public Testimony]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Union Station, 401 S. Jackson St., Seattle<\/p>\n<p>Event on Facebook:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/455481031211147\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/455481031211147\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t make it there? Submit your testimony online here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/council\/testimony.aspx\">http:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/council\/testimony.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metro.kingcounty.gov\/am\/future\/\">http:\/\/metro.kingcounty.gov\/am\/future\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to annual budget shortfalls, King County Metro is facing possible route eliminations and\/or reductions in the near future. Although ridership has continually increased, funding for King County Metro's services have continued to fall faster than revenues have risen.\u00a0 What does this mean for me? 1\/3 of Metro's routes (65 routes) may be eliminated, and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/2013\/05\/12\/public-hearing-for-metro-cuts\/\">...more about Public Hearing for Metro Cuts! [Tues, May 17]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}