Seaview Ave /Sunset Hill Community Connections Project
Seaview Ave /Sunset Hill Community Connections Project
Do you live in or visit Seaview Avenue, Sunset Hill, or Golden Gardens Park in Ballard? If so, we’d like your help to improve how you and others get around in your community.
King County Metro along with our partners at Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the Port of Seattle are exploring innovative ways to improve how residents and visitors of Seaview Avenue, Sunset Hill, and Golden Gardens Park get around. Earlier this year, Metro and Seaview/Sunset Hill residents confirmed a set of mobility needs unique to the Seaview Avenue and Sunset Hill communities. These mobility needs are consistent with a survey effort completed last year by a community committee within Seaview Avenue /Sunset Hill.
The residents and visitors of the Seaview/Sunset Hill communities who completed the Mobility Needs Assessment Survey identified the need for transportation options that…
- …are available at a wider range of times than existing peak-only (6-9a.m. and 3-7p.m.) services, especially midday and weekend service
- …connect to shopping, restaurants, and entertainment in central Ballard
- …connect to frequent, all-day transit which runs through Ballard
- …connect to Golden Gardens
- … feel safe to access and provide a safe waiting environment
Proposed Potential Solutions
Golden Gardens Summer Shuttle (April – October)
Shuttle Service between downtown Ballard and Golden Gardens Park
- This service would operate along a fixed route, having several stops to pick-up and drop-off passengers along Seaview Ave NW and NW Market St.
- This service would operate every 30 minutes from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on summer weekends only.
- This service is ADA Accessible
- Provides shuttle service along Seaview Ave NW and NW Market St connecting to Golden Gardens Park and downtown Ballard on summer weekends, when parking is constrained.
- Can use an ORCA card, cash, paper transfer, mobile ticket, and/or other forms of valid fare media to ride, and it cost the same as riding a Metro bus ($2.75 or less) – see Metro’s Fare Webpage.
