Move Eastbound 75 and 372 to Pacific/Montlake?

New Metro Route 78

King County Metro has a couple northeast Seattle bus routes, 65/67 and 78, that serve both the inner University of Washington campus and UW Station, by having a couplet in which the westbound route runs on Stevens Way and the eastbound route runs on NE Pacific St, NE Pacific Way, and then Montlake Blvd NE, serving UW Station Bay 3, about a block north of the station entrance.

A couple other routes that travel on Stevens Way both ways and serve neighborhoods northeast of campus could conceivably be switched to the Stevens / Pacific couplet. Route 75, which through-routes with routes 31 and 32 is one. The other is route 372, with no through-route.

Looking forward to 2021, when Northgate Link opens, this couplet may continue to make sense for some of these routes. Staying on NE 45th St instead of going into campus may make sense for others.

Metro could administratively move these routes at the time of a service change. The next one will be in September.

Couplets generally degrade service legibility and add complexity to the network. But if direct access to both Stevens Way and UW Station is desirable, and if for ADA reasons it is preferable to have a couple routes that do the clockwise loop, then it may be better for the network as a whole to have all routes serve the split pattern.

So I would like to throw the question open. For those of you who ride the bus routes that pass by UW Station, including on Stevens Way, which paths would you prefer to see your bus route(s) take, both in the immediate future and after 2021?