Changes Coming to Bus Routes Serving Kirkland

Changes are right around the corner for several bus routes operated by King County Metro and Sound Transit.

Both agencies will be revising a handful of routes beginning this weekend, June 8-9. The changes include the following routes serving Kirkland:

• Metro route 245: On weekdays, four southbound trips to Factoria leaving the Kirkland Transit Center at 12:03 a.m. and 6:14 a.m., and 6:14 p.m. and 6:44 p.m. will be discontinued. Four northbound trips to Kirkland leaving Factoria at 6:31 a.m. and 6:08, 6:38 and 7:08 p.m. will also be discontinued. On weekends, one southbound trip leaving the Kirkland Transit Center at 11:55 p.m. will be discontinued. The Regional Mobility grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation that funded these trips will expire on June 30.
  
  
• Metro route 265: One westbound trip to downtown Seattle leaving the Houghton Park-and-Ride at8:33 a.m. and one eastbound trip to the Houghton Park-and-Ride leaving 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at 5:39 p.m. will be discontinued. In mid-July, when the new parking garage at the South Kirkland Park-and-Ride is expected to be finished, the westbound trip leaving the Houghton Park-and-Ride at 9:13 a.m. and the eastbound trip leaving 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street at 6:19 p.m. will also be discontinued.