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See Snohomish County, Washington#Transportation.

Contents 1 Transportation 1.1 Roads 1.2 Buses and Trains 1.3 Airplanes and Ferries

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Roads

Snohomish County has five major routes that connect the county to the other counties and other areas. There are four north-south routes, which are Interstate 5, Interstate 405, State Route 9, and State Route 99. The only complete east-west route is U.S. Route 2.

Interstates and U.S. Routes

Interstate 5

Interstate 405

U.S. Route 2

State Routes

State Route 9 State Route 92 State Route 96 State Route 99

State Route 522 State Route 524 State Route 525 State Route 526

State Route 527 State Route 528 State Route 529

State Route 530 State Route 531 State Route 532

Former Routes (PSH/SSH)

Primary State Highway 1

Primary State Highway 15

[edit] Buses and Trains

Snohomish County is linked by many bus routes from two systems, which are Community Transit and Sound Transit. The county also has train access from Everett Station for Amtrak's Empire Builder line (to Chicago), and Cascades line (to Vancouver, BC, Edmonds, and Seattle), and Sound Transit's Sounder service to and from Seattle, which links to the South Line that goes to Tacoma.^[1]

Community Transit is planning a bus service called SWIFT Bus Rapid Transit from Everett Station to the Aroura Village in Shoreline along the SR 99 corridor. Sound Transit is also planning to extend the Tacoma Link Light Rail service to Seattle and eventually, Everett Station. The line will be known as the North Link.

[edit] Airplanes and Ferries

Snohomish County has one offical airport and several municipal airports. The county also is connected by 2 ferry lines operated by Washington State Ferries.

The one offical airport is Paine Field, otherwise known as Snohomish County Airport. There are smaller airports- municipal airports and an "other" airport, Harvey Field in Snohomish. There are 2 municipal airports, Arlington Municipal and Darrington Municipal. There are also two private airports, one in Lake Stevens and another in Granite Falls. The Martha Lake Airport in Martha Lake was a former private airport that was closed in 2000^[2]

As said in the introduction above, there are two ferry lines operated by Washington State Ferries in Snohomish County waters that go to and from different counties from the county.^[3] The first line is the Edmonds-Kingston line, which carries SR 104. SR 104 terminates in the west at US 101 west of the Kitsap Peninsula, after crossing the Hood Canal over the Hood Canal Bridge. SR 104 terminates in the east at Interstate 5 on the county boundary with King County.^[4] The second line is the Mukilteo-Clinton line, which carries SR 525. SR 525 terminates in the west at SR 20 on Whidbey Island, near where SR 20 goes across on another ferry line to US 101. SR 525 terminates in the east at an interchange with Interstate 5, where it continues as Interstate 405.^[5]