2010 Metro Transit Facts
(Year-end 2009 figures*)
| Metro Transit Services |
| Customer Information |
| Phone |
206-553-3000 |
| TTY Relay |
711 |
| Transportation communications |
| Phone |
206-684-1162 |
| TTY Relay |
711 |
| Metro Online |
www.kingcounty.gov/metro |
| General Manager |
Kevin Desmond |
| General information (2009 year-end) |
| Area served (square miles) |
2,134 |
| Population served |
1,909,300 |
| Metro buses and vans |
| Diesel buses |
906 |
| Trolley buses |
157 |
| Hybrid buses |
250 |
| Other buses (training and inactive) |
95 |
| Transit vans (diesel) |
21 |
| Streetcars |
| Waterfront Streetcar (inactive) |
5 |
| South Lake Union Streetcar |
3 |
| Commuter vans |
| Groups in operation |
1,088 |
| Available for groups |
92 |
| Paratransit vans |
354 |
| Transit service |
| Metro Transit and Sound Transit |
| Passenger boardings, including South Lake Union Streetcar (est.) |
119,936,272 |
| Vehicle hours |
3,911,305 |
| Vehicle miles |
50,657,430 |
| Boardings per vehicle hour |
30.7 |
| Miles per trouble call |
5,631 |
| Diesel fuel used (gallons) |
10,495,117 |
| Metro Transit only
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| Passenger boardings, including South Lake Union Streetcar (est.) |
111,717,152 |
| Vehicle hours |
3,560,245 |
| Vehicle miles |
44,555,440 |
| Boardings per vehicle hour |
31.4 |
| Electricity used (kwh) |
17,487,655 |
| Commuter van program (Vanpool & Vanshare) |
| Passenger boardings (est.) |
3,172,678 |
| Vehicle miles |
11,802,532 |
| Direct operating cost |
| Per vehicle mile |
$0.38 |
| Per passenger trip |
$1.41 |
| Elderly and disabled riders program |
| Note: All of Metro’s regular buses and routes are wheelchair-accessible. Metro also offers Access paratransit service for riders who are disabled and cannot use our regular accessible bus service. |
| Paratransit boardings |
1,154,247 |
| Access van passenger trips |
1,119,927 |
| Taxi passenger trips |
34,320 |
| Ridematch program |
| Rideshare Online |
| Home page visits |
275,715 |
| Logon sessions |
64,705 |
| New ridematch customers |
13,575 |
| New matches for existing customers |
12,854 |
| Metro employees |
| Total employees |
4,446 |
| Bus drivers (full- and part-time) |
2,717 |
| Non-driver employees |
1,729 |
| Financial information (2009 year-end) |
| Operating expense (excluding Sound Transit and other funds) |
$498,204,434 |
| Operations revenue |
$124,602,640 |
| Bus operating cost per boarding |
$3.92 |
| Bus operations revenue per boarding |
$1.05 |
| Transit facilities |
| Bus stops |
9,590 |
| Bus stops with passenger shelters |
1,670 |
| Passenger shelters with murals |
845 |
| Bus stops, wheelchair-accessible |
7,366 |
| Transit centers |
13 |
| Park-and-rides used by Metro |
130 |
| Park-and-ride stalls |
25,126 |
| High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes used by Metro (miles) |
247.72 |
| Trolley overhead—two-way wire (street miles) |
>69 |
| Transit bases |
7 |
| Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel |
| Length (miles) |
1.3 |
| Stations |
5 |
| South Lake Union Streetcar |
| Length of route, each way (miles) |
1.3 |
| Stops with passenger shelters |
11 |
* All statistics are from the King County Metro Transit 2009 Annual Management Report (132KB PDF), available with other documents on Metro’s Reports & Publications page. To top |
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