Project will be a key element of Sound Transit’s Stride bus rapid transit system
Today, Sound Transit and project partners celebrated the groundbreaking of Sound Transit’s Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility (Bus OMF). The Bus OMF will primarily serve as the home of Stride, an all-new three-line bus rapid transit system that will transform travel around Lake Washington. Stride will dramatically cut travel times and improve transit reliability between Burien and Bellevue, Bellevue and Lynnwood, and from Shoreline to Bothell, operating battery electric buses every 10-15 minutes primarily using HOV and dedicated lanes.
The Bus OMF, which is located north of the Canyon Park Park-and-Ride in Bothell, will include a new operations and maintenance building and parking structures for buses a