A Growing Seattle Needs Reliable Transit
Seattle’s Route 8 bus has the potential to transform the commercial landscape of Lower Queen Anne, Belltown, South Lake Union, Capitol Hill, Madison Valley, the Central District, and Mount Baker. In spite of its record breaking slowness and unreliability, it remains one of the highest-ridership buses in the city, even as countless riders have renounced it for being slower than walking (or even a conga line!). If the city were to save the bus from the Denny Way traffic that slows it to a crawl, ridership would skyrocket along the entire route in response to a fast, frequent, and reliable east-west connection. Our community’s most vital institutions, businesses, its employees, members, and patrons, would all benefit from keeping Seattle moving.
Get Involved Making Route 8 Great!
There’s many ways to advocate for this community-led effort — pick what fits your organization. Sign the letter, poster your community board, shout out in a newsletter, share on socials, spread the stats. We appreciate you and future Seattle does too.
How We Fix The L8
We can fix this! It’s clear the majority of delay on this route occurs on Denny Way in SLU, as car drivers funnel onto I-5. Regular riders of the 8 know that they can typically walk faster than the bus until just after Fairview Ave, where a short stretch of bus lane provides some relief. This bus lane clearly works — let’s expand it!
We raced the L8 and won!
This summer, hundreds of us showed up to race Route 8 doing the slowest things we knew and we all won! The conga line, cha cha slide, three legged race, juggle, jump rope, folk dance, etc — all faster than The L8!
Letter In Support, by Seattle’s Transit Advisory Board
The Transit Advisory Board advises the City on all things transit, and they recently published a strongly worded letter to SDOT expressing their disapproval at SDOT’s inadequate analysis and inaction on Route 8 and Denny Way.
Councilmember Rinck calls for bus lanes
In October, we stood with city councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck as she announced her Better Bus Lanes campaign, calling for Denny Way bus lanes to improve Route 8’s service.
Stay up to date with FixTheL8
We want Seattle to be a world class city with world class transit, one that our community can depend on. But to get there, we need transit to be a priority in our city’s planning, not an afterthought. Keep in touch with our campaign here on fixthel8.com or on Bluesky.
We Are Neighbors & Volunteers
We are Fix The L8, a partnership between Central Seattle Greenways and the Transit Riders Union.
A Community-Wide Coalition
Businesses and institutional stakeholders in support of solutions to get Seattle moving.
