File #: 2025-0147    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/27/2025 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/1/2025
Enactment date: Enactment #: 19951
Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing the Locally Preferred Alternative including the alignment and station locations of the RapidRide K Line.
Sponsors: De'Sean Quinn, Claudia Balducci
Indexes: RapidRide
Attachments: 1. 2025-0147 Amendment 1, 2. A. K Line Locally Preferred Alternative Report, 3. B. K Line Station Locations Exhibit, Updated July 1, 2025, 4. B. K Line Station Locations Exhibit, 5. 2025-0147 Transmittal Letter, 6. 2025-0147 K Line Community Engagement Summary Phase 1 (Dec 2019), 7. 2025-0147 K Line Community Engagement Summary Phase 2 (Jul 2024), 8. 2025-0147 K Line Community Engagement Summary Phase 3 (Apr 2025), 9. 2025-0147 Letters of Support, 10. 2025-0147 Fiscal Note, 11. 2025-0147 Legislative Review Form, 12. 2025-0147_SR_KLine-LPA, 13. ATT2. Amdt1_Stmt of Facts K Line bar, 14. 2025-0147_Revised_SR_KLine-LPA
Staff: Bourguignon, Mary
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AN ORDINANCE establishing the Locally Preferred Alternative including the alignment and station locations of the RapidRide K Line.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Via Ordinance 18449, enacted February 1, 2017, the King County council adopted the Metro Connects long-range transit service and capital plan, which identified an expanded network of bus rapid transit lines, also known as RapidRide lines, for future implementation, including the RapidRide K Line connecting Kirkland and Bellevue.
2. Via Motion 14956, passed September 18, 2017, the council approved a report on the implementation of new RapidRide lines as required by Ordinance 18409, Section 132, Proviso P5, titled Implementation of New RapidRide Lines/Metro Connects RapidRide Expansion, which identified the K Line as one of the next-generation RapidRide lines to be implemented.
3. Via Ordinance 18835, enacted November 14, 2018, the council adopted, and the executive signed the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, which included capital project 1134292 to implement the RapidRide K Line.
4. Via Ordinance 19210, enacted November 30, 2020, the council adopted, and the executive signed the 2021-2022 Biennial Budget Ordinance, which removed project 1134292 from the capital improvement program and paused all planning and development efforts for the RapidRide K Line due to the impacts of the pandemic on the Metro transit department.
5. Via Ordinance 19367, enacted December 15, 2021, the council adopted an update to the Metro Connects long-range transit service and capital plan, which stated that the K Line had been prioritized for investment as one of the next RapidRide lines to be implemented and identified the K Line in the Metro Connects interim network maps as beginning operations in the 2030s.
6. Via Motion 16153, passed July 5, 2022, the council approved a report on efforts to restart planning for the RapidRide lines that had been paused in response to the pandemic as required by Ordinance 19210, S...

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