RapidRide Line Speed and Reliability Improvements CMAQ - Connecting Corridors

What will CMAQ funding do? What is RapidRide Line? $6,000,000 in CMAQ grant funding will allow King County Metro is bringing RapidRide to south King County. The Metro to build transit speed and reliability new RapidRide Line will be a 17 mile north-south Bus Rapid Transit projects in the Renton Regional Growth (BRT) service providing a fast, frequent, and more reliable transit Center, near the City of Renton’s South option connecting the vital Renton, Kent, and Auburn regional Renton Transit Center – a key transit hub. This growth centers. RapidRide Line will also provide area residents planned transportation hub is being built in faster and easier access to regional destinations by linking to other conjunction with the Sound Transit I-405 BRT high capacity transit such as RapidRide F Line, Sounder Commuter project and will connect local and regional Rail, and future Metro and Sound Transit routes. bus service, and Sound Transit and Metro BRT lines. Improvements in the vicinity of this new What problem does RapidRide Line solve? transportation hub will improve the speed and Right now, transit does not work well in the key residential and reliability of buses on local and regional routes, employment centers of Renton, Kent and Auburn. Congested as well as RapidRide Line, extending the roadways make commuting by bus slow and reduce service benefits to the communities served by the South reliability. Despite that, routes 169 and 180, which currently serve Renton Transit Center throughout south King Renton, Kent, and Auburn, are among the busiest Metro routes County. in south King County, demonstrating a high demand for transit service that is only expected to grow as more people and jobs move The Speed and Reliability projects near the into the area. RapidRide Line will include speed and reliability South Renton Transit Center are key to achieving improvements that will improve travel time throughout its 17-mile travel time benefits for the entire 17-mile corridor, both for riders, and for single-occupant vehicles. RapidRide Line corridor and will include:

traffic signal retiming, modification, and RapidRide Line by the numbers synchronization modifications to existing transit signal priority jobs served by the corridor (TSP) installations 138,000 new and modified transit-only and Business Access Transit (BAT) lanes riders each bus queue jumps 10,000 weekday by 2026

minutes of trip 5 -19 reduction

regional centers 3 connected Benefits to Regional Growth or Overview map Manufacturing Industrial Centers Regional connections – RapidRide Line will Renton better connect three important regional growth and Regional 405 employment centers to each other, and to the region as rowth a whole. enter Renton Transit Economic growth – When people can more easily Center and reliably get to and from the 138,000 jobs in the area served by the corridor, that encourages economic South Tuwkila growth. SE Grady Way Renton Transit Active transportation – RapidRide Line will include Tuwila Station pringbrook Center infrastructure that will make it easier for people to walk B

Trail e n or ride their bikes to and from the bus, and it will help s o n Renton connect people to regional trails such as the Interurban

Tukwila D r Regional S Trail and the Green River Trail.

rowth Rd S Talbot SE Petrovitsky Rd Access – RapidRide Line will improve access to jobs, enter community services, educational opportunities and S Carr Rd more for people who are historically transit-dependent. System Continuity/Long Term Benefits and SE 192nd St Sustainability Link Ridership – RapidRide Line will draw between 4,000

reen Sounder to 6,000 new daily riders as area residents view it as

River SE 108th Ave SE 208th St an attractive alternative to driving alone. Trail Kent Travel time – Riders will save between 5-19 minutes per trip on the corridor, reducing travel time by more than 20% in the PM peak period. Transit connections – RapidRide Line connects more ent people in the regional growth centers of Renton, Kent Regional rowth and Auburn to other transit options such as Sound enter E James St SE 240th St Transit’s Sounder and Link light rail and Metro’s F Line. 104th Ave SE 104th Ave

ent Station Canyon Dr Air Quality and Climate Change Air quality – Increasing ridership will take single- occupant vehicles off congested roads and highways, SE 256th St reduce vehicle miles traveled, and decrease greenhouse Legend gas emissions and other air pollution. 516 uture RapidRide ine nterurban Trail Eisting S Ave Central Project timeline RapidRide ine S 277th St ink ight Rail Spring 2019: Engaged the community and uture 0 us partners to draft concepts. Rapid Transit ounder Rail 167 Summer 2019: Conducted community Transit tation reen engagement to inform station locations, Regional River projects to improve access, and service rowth enter Trail changes. Regional Trail Auburn Fall 2019-Summer 2020: Use community 15th St NE feedback to inform preliminary design. Auburn N Way Auburn Regional Spring 2020: Final design begins. rowth enter 2022: Construction begins. E Main St Auburn Station 2023: RapidRide Line service begins.