New public transit Swift Orange Line opens in Snohomish County

EDMONDS, Wash. — A new transit line in Snohomish County, the Swift Orange Line, opened on Saturday with the goal of changing how riders travel between Edmonds to Everett — and the future light rail station in Lynnwood.

“It’s a dream come true,” said Rosalind Mckinsey, a Community Transit rider. “It stops at a lot of places that I have been going to in the past where I had to switch buses.”

On Saturday, Community Transit officially opened its “Swift Orange Line.” The $83 million project is the agency’s third “Swift Bus Rapid Transit Service” (BRT) line.  It consists of an 11-mile route linking Edmonds College, Alderwood Mall and Mill Creek

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