Republican Lawmakers want to know if Sound Transit conned them on costs

[LisaM]

3. You tell me. I called Metro, I called my city councilwoman, I called the mayor, and King County.

When they opened the new stations in Queen Anne and Husky Stadium, 5 of the routes from the north end to downtown were cut (one of them became part of the arcane transfer system at Husky Stadium). There was clearly a cause and effect between opening those new ST routes and cutting the Metro routes and no one will take responsibility. My bus being removed from the tunnel next year (I work in a building with a tunnel stop) is also because they are giving priority to Sound Transit.

Sound Transit tells me it's Metro, Metro won't take responsibility, I can't get from the Seattle Center to my neighborhood on a direct bus anymore, and more bus cuts are looming. It's absolutely maddening. But the five routes they cut were all directly linked to the opening of the Queen Anne and Husky Stadium stops.

In a year and a half, I've used that new ST route to get to where I'm going exactly once. In the meantime, I can't take a bus to the grocery store from downtown, I can't get home from the Rep, I can't take my Thursday night bus (I can transfer but it doubled the time of the trip), I can't get from my eye doctor to downtown (they changed the 66 to two buses that go one way in the morning and another in the afternoon) and nobody will proffer an explanation.

All they care about are tech company workers and Sounders fans. Do you know how many elderly and/or disabled people I've talked to that are completely screwed by this?