Service Reductions for Martin Luther King, Jr Day

Sound Transit Express will be running their regular service schedules on MLK Day, but may find their usual bus lanes filled with parked cars. . Photo by AVGeekJoe

Next Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Most transit agencies run a regular weekday schedule. The outliers are King County Metro, Sound Transit's Link Light Rail and Tacoma streetcar, the King County Water Taxis, the Seattle Streetcars, Community Transit's commuter routes, Clallam Transit, and Mason Transit.

While Link Light Rail is running a Saturday schedule, the Saturday span of service is the same as the weekday span of service. With 3-car trains running all day (as has become the unpublished tradition for all Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays), it will also be more spacious, especially if you wait in the right section of the platform to board the third car.

As Zach pointed out over a year ago, the Seattle Department of Transportation has bought out the Metro weekday reductions on Seattle-only routes (except those in the separate UW reductions category) on minor holidays, but the Seattle Municipal Code hasn't caught up with that reality. Free parking is allowed on minor holidays in a lot of lanes that would normally function as bus lanes.

Information about bus reroutes can be found at Metro's, Sound Transit's, and Community Transit's alert pages.

I am no longer including shuttles that are not open to the public in this list. Check here for additional transit options provided through the University of Washington. (None of these operate on weekends or on MLK Day.)

Service levels for transit agencies around the region for this Saturday through Monday are below the fold.