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King County Metro or Metro for short is the public transit authority of King County Washington a division of the King County Department of Transportation. It began operations on January 1 1973 but can trace its roots to Seattle Transit founded in 1939 and Overlake Transit Service founded in 1927. As of 2008 it operated 1443 buses on 223 routes. Its annual ridership in 2008 was 118 million. By second quarter 2012 ridership figures Metro is the 8th largest agency in the nation.