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This provides a significant opportunity for our community to rethink what better transit looks like to best service enormous growth, to be more convenient for more people, to improve speed and reliability, expand availability of frequent transit, and, of course, connect to Link. No less than forty (!) routes are being studied for modifications or deletion as part of E&R Link’s opening. The very first public survey, available here, primes our communities in determining what our future transit network looks like for years to come.Īs with Northgate Link, E&R Link will transform East Side bus service to be more local-focused and Link-connecting with Link’s future 2 Line providing the bulk of commuter and longer-distance service between major hubs. A new Link extension comes with a significant restructure for transit services provided by Community Transit, Sound Transit, and King County Metro.ĭuring these exciting times for regional transit, Sound Transit and Metro have begun their public-facing process of restructuring routes and creating new transfers between East Link and Redmond Link (E&R Link) when they come into service in 20, respectively. “Restructure” and “transfer” are hot transit words in the Pacific Northwest, with all eyes focused on Northgate Link opening October 2 nd.