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SERVICE CHANGES STARTING SEPT 19, 2010
After many months of planning and hundreds of public comments, WTA is now ready to reduce service in response to the economic slowdown. Numerous administrative cutbacks will also take place.
WTA thanks you for your patience, understanding, and suggestions as we go through this difficult process of scaling back transit service.
A complete listing of the revised service, along with maps, will be available at www.ridewta.com starting August 15, 2010.
If you have questions about the changes, contact:
Rick Nicholson, Director of Service Development
E-mail: rickn@ridewta.com; Phone: (360) 738-4585
CLICK HERE TO LINK TO LIST OF ROUTES WITH CORRESPONDING MAP AND SCHEDULE CHANGES.
Listed below is a description of the changes that will take place starting September 19, 2010: Sunday service will be eliminated.
Routes 9, 10, 23, 28X and 541 will be eliminated.
Routes 3 & 4 will have routing dropped on Patton St, Pinewood Ave, Birchwood Ave, and Northwest Ave and added on Bennett Dr and Cottonwood Ave. The Willows senior living center will be served by both Routes 3 and 4. Route 3 will have the same schedule. Route 4 will depart Bellingham Station at :10 after the hour.
Route 15 Downtown will have the10:15PM departure from Cordata Station eliminated weekdays and Saturdays.
Route 24 will have all :25 after the hour departures and the 10:10PM departure eliminated weekdays and Saturdays.Route 27 will add routing serving Pioneer Park in Ferndale. Route 25X will serve east Lynden on the same routing as Route 26. Route 27 will add routing serving Pioneer Park in Ferndale. Route 49 would have the 3:48PM trip from Bakerview Spur and the 4:10PM trip from Bellingham Station eliminated. Route 55 will depart Blaine at 8:36AM and 1:00PM weekdays and 8:36AM and 3:40PM Saturdays. Route 55 will depart Cordata Station at 11:45AM and 2:55PM weekdays and 10:00AM and 4:55PM Saturdays. Route 55 mid-day local service (11:00AM to 1:40PM) will be eliminated. Route 72X will only serve VanZandt inbound on the trip leaving Kendall at 6:24AM and outbound on the trip leaving Bellingham Station at 4:10PM. Route 401 will have the evening departures at 7:10PM, 8:10PM, 9:10PM, 10:10PM and 10:40PM eliminated weekdays and Saturdays. On Saturdays the :25 and :55 after the hour departures will be eliminated. Route 525 will eliminate routing on Northshore Dr, Britton Rd, and Barkley Blvd between Britton Rd and Woburn St. Route 525 will add routing on Silver Beach Ave, Sylvan St, Woburn St, Barkley Blvd between Woburn St and Orleans St, Orleans St and Sunset Dr. Route 540 will now serve Lakeway Dr, Woburn St to Sunset Dr, Sunset Dr to McLeod Rd and turn around at Del Bonita Way and Spring Coulee Rd. Route 540 will depart Bellingham Station at :55 after the hour. The PLUM Line will be reduced to three buses per hour rather than four. No Route 80X Shuttle in Summer or when WWU not in Session Beginning Monday, June 28, the 80X Shuttle (from Lincoln Creek to WWU) will no longer operate in the summer or on days throughout the academic year when WWU does not hold classes.
WWU riders wishing to connect to and from Route 80X Mt. Vernon at Lincoln Creek during these times should use Route 190 instead. |
