Thanks to Joseph for the photo. The familiar red-highlighted RapidRide station framework is appearing on Delridge Way, eight months before the scheduled conversion of Metro Route 120 to the RapidRide H Line. This work is under way on southbound Delridge just south of SW Andover. As shown on the map of the West Seattle section of the H Line, this will be the northernmost station:
The H Line is currently scheduled to launch with Metro’s September service change
The construction has about came to a complete stop south of Roxbury… Concrete workers are on strike.
They are also working on the one on the west side at Delridge & Graham.
Will all of the stops have signage about time for next arrival or just some?
With all the new builds (and proposed) in S Delridge will be interesting to see if there’s any space available by N Delridge. I’m assuming there are actually lots of people needing/wanting to ride Metro living on/near Delridge.
I noticed the buses and cars are driving on the off peak parking lane on Delridge. When is the city going to clearly define the lane usage as parking during off peak hours?
They really just need to make those bus lanes 24/7. The peak/off peak thing is just too confusing and seems harder to enforce than all-hours restrictions.
Indeed. I don’t think the city can reasonably have tow trucks at the ready everywhere they need to during peak hours. I’ve been on many busses that have had to deal with cars being left in the lane. This design needs to be retired.
I disagree. When the Lincoln Park parking lots were closed and park users were parking on the west side of Fauntleroy, plenty of people got towed. The tow trucks were all queued up and ready to go at 2:00 p.m. sharp when the curb went “no parking” to make room for the ferry line. While I also believe that the curb of Delridge should be 24/7 bus lanes, if peak parkers become a problem, they will be towed.
My concern is the reckless drivers who go 50 mph down delridge when it’s dark out using the bus lane to pass regular drivers. Having had a girl die in front of my home on Delridge who got hit by a car it’s forever burned in my mind that a speeding driver killed her and she didn’t get a chance to grow up.
But think of how much time that driver might have saved by speeding and going double the speed limit. Probably a few whole seconds!
What upsets me is where the stops are. They put them in front of small businesses and they don’t have a place for customers to park! They are struggling with so much already.
Many buses are empty or close to it. For a fossil fuel bus to be a net environmental win, 25% of the seats need to be filled (emissions per mile average). That doesn’t account for idling and not moving. That number also assumes that without a bus, those passengers would be driving a car; therefore cutting down on congestion and pollution at the same time. However, we don’t know how many people who ride the bus do so by choice or by necessity. How many times have been stuck behind a bus, either going very slow or stopping traffic completely? How many people are on that bus holding up X number of cars with Y number of people in them? If your car is stopped because of a bus, now everyone is at idle (most pollutants at idle). Do a risk-benefit analysis. Could we do with fewer buses and fewer stops and actually improve traffic flow and cut down on pollution? I think so. Also, think about the savings in terms of state and city funding/tax. Those savings could be put toward infrastructure that would allow a vehicle to go from sodo to northgate in 15 min vs an hour and thereby cutting emissions even further. Just food for thought.
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