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Clerk 05/16/2025
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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 King County Metro transit department's long-range transit service and capital plan, METRO CONNECTS, which identifies an expanded network of future RapidRide lines for implementation, including the RapidRide K Line connecting Kirkland and Bellevue.
2. Via Ordinance 19861, enacted December 2, 2024, the council adopted, and the executive signed the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, which included capital project 1134292 to implement the RapidRide K Line.
3. 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.
4. As documented in the RapidRide K Line Community Engagement Summary Reports, the Metro transit department conducted community engagement concerning the proposed alignment and station locations for the RapidRide K Line in the communities in which it will operate, including Kirkland and Bellevue. As part of the community engagement, the Metro transit department consulted the cities of Kirkland and Bellevue to accommodate city priorities regarding station locations and proposed right-of-way improvements, street and facility design, and proposed transit priority treatments, consistent with bus rapid transit concepts.
5. The RapidRide K Line will apply to receive grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration's Small Starts grant program, with the goal of entering into a Small Starts grant agreement.
6. The Federal Transit Administration requires that Small Starts grant-funded projects opera...
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