Federal money for Madison Street bus-rapid transit is on hold because Seattle and King County Metro can’t get the electric vehicles that officials promised.
The agencies sought clean, wire-powered trolleybuses since voters approved the Move Seattle property-tax levy in 2015 and the Sound Transit 3 ballot measure in 2016, which each provide partial funding. Metro will likely resort to diesel-electric hybrids.
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