![]() ![]() The benefit of such an alignment is that the Metro 8 would get to serve other parts of Capitol Hill, but the lack of an easy connection between lines would be a drawback from a user standpoint. ![]() Perhaps this is a nod to the difficulty at shoehorning another station next to the existing one or to the overcrowding that could result if they do. One place the vision map’s Metro 8 subway doesn’t serve is Capitol Hill Station. Seattle Subway’s 2019 Vision Map expanded the Orange “Metro 8” Line and the Pink “Aurora” Line north to Edmonds. It’d also serve the Central District with two stops and Judkins Park, connecting with East Link. From here on, the Metro 8 follows the same course as last year’s version–next stop Madison Valley, where it’d connect with a Madison Rapid Transit line that the map envisions crossing Lake Washington to Kirkland and interlining with the planned Issaquah line from the ST3 map. Along the way, it’d pick up Belltown, Denny Triangle (interlining with the Green Line’s Denny station), South Lake Union, Summit Slope (aka East Capitol Hill), and Western Capitol Hill with a 15th Avenue stop. With the 2019 tweaks, the Metro 8’s eastern terminus would be Mount Baker and its western terminus would be Pike Place Market, pulling in the Waterfront, which will soon get a big-time makeover. How would you improve service to a lot of dense areas? I haven’t seen a version of the Metro 8, for example, that serves Belltown before or that tries to serve the Waterfront.” “So we kinda spent some time thinking about what would it look like if you could really pull in neighborhoods that aren’t getting great service. “There’s a lot of people really excited about the Metro 8 line,” Kyle said. The major differences from past maps (like the 20 versions) include extending the Aurora line to Edmonds, picking up Shoreline along the way and extending the Metro 8–named because it would turn the perpetually late Route 8 bus into a workhorse rapid transit line–to Belltown and Pike Place Market. As you can tell from the map, Seattle will be a centerpiece, but there are some interesting additions for the suburbs too. This is a yearly ritual for all-volunteer-run organization this year Seattle Subway Executive Director Keith Kyle said the tweaks are geared toward zeroing in on lines that are attractive for future transit measures. Fresh off Sound Transit 3 (ST3) success–with voters greenlighting 62 miles of light rail and two bus rapid transit corridors–Seattle Subway continues to keep an eye on the next transit measure. Seattle Subway isn’t an organization to rest on its laurels. ![]()
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