Seattles Light Rail is now 1 YR old, and its still a failure. At the cost of $200,000 a Yard it is only carrying 6% of the amount of passengers the supporters said it would carry. And most of those would of taken another form of public transportation anyway. Also they neglected to put Parking at the train stops, thinking people would ride a bus to the stop. They don’t
Yep. The ONLY time I ride the light rail is when I have a one-day trip on a plane. I drive to the park-and-ride (from Edmonds to SeaTac), and then pay $4 for a round trip ticket rather than $25 to park at the airport.
The two times I’ve ridden it from downtown to the airport (just to see what it was like) it was quite empty, and really not any faster than driving. No park-and-rides was an insane idea - thanks Ron Sims!
Best of all - (un)Sound Transit and METRO canceled bus routes that the light rail duplicated. It’s estimated that half the riders of light rail came from the terminated bus lines. Never mind the bus was cheaper, faster, and more flexible!