Three station platforms aren’t the correct height for wheelchair access — and 25 shelters need to be removed, welded and painted again — along Seattle’s latest addition to its RapidRide bus service.
The line, which traverses the Capitol Hill, First Hill, Central District and Madison Valley neighborhoods, opened last month.
Orange steel plates are on the street at three center median stations, in order to raise buses by less than an inch for better operation of wheelchair ramps. The problem was identified before the route began running on Sept. 14 and the steel plates are temporary, said Ethan Bergerson, a spokesperson with the Seattle Department of Transportation, which was responsible for the line’s construction.
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