The city of Seattle is improving transit service as the city grows.
"Later this month, King County Metro will roll out more bus service for the tenth time since 2015," reports Stephen Fesler.
In all, the new transit service adds 1,400 new bus trips every week. Improvements include additional hours of ten-minute frequencies on the RapidRide E Line, and frequencies on routes 105, 164, 183, 346, and 906 will be improved to 30-minuet headways or better.
A lot more details on the service improvements are available in the source article.
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