During a King County Council meeting, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 President Greg Woodfill suggested the county move funding dedicated to making Metro’s bus fleet 100% electric to transit ...

SEATTLE — King County officials have launched a task force to address the growing safety concerns among metro transit operators. The initiative comes in response to a series of traumatic ...

King County hosted its first meeting Thursday for the new Regional Transit Safety Task Force. The meeting included representatives from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 587, city and ...

Following the deadly stabbing of an on-duty King County Metro bus operator this past December, a recently-formed safety task force will have its first meeting today.

This year, Metro began partnering with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 to discuss these partitions. The department is now revising the county’s order of 89 battery-electric buses scheduled ...

Following the stabbing death of King County Metro bus operator Shawn Yim, the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 gathered to announce the formation of the Transit Safety and Security Task Force. On ...

ATU Local 587 president Greg Woodfill, who advocated for the creation of the task force during a January hearing, stressed the need for collaboration across jurisdictions.

The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 announcement says the task force including “city leaders, public safety officials, transportation stakeholders, transit agency representatives, and King County ...

The King County Council on Tuesday unanimously approved legislation to support the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 587's call for the establishment of a countywide task force on transit safety.