Seattle Link Light Rail Ridership Report
By Evan at August 14th, 2009.UPDATE: Welcome Sound Transit employees. We’re proud that we apparently made your intranet news links! If you happen to be in the advertising department, you can submit an ad quote request using the form on our Advertise page (we’ve made a note of your ad at the liberal-leaning PubliCola.net).
Courtesy of T. England. Taken today during morning rushour (or what should have been).
Tags: Light Rail, Ride the Wave, Ridership, Seattle, Sound Transit
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Let’s do some numbers. Recently it was reported that 65 people were in line to buy tickets. Each transaction was taking about 4 minutes to process. The last person in line would be waiting over four hours to get a ticket. They could slow WALK (3mph) from Tukwila to Westlake Station in less time.
No wonder there isn’t anybody on the train, they’re all walking.
So think about it. The boobs and political philosophy who created this overpriced whale are the same ones wanting to control every aspect of your health care.
“Recently it was reported that 65 people were in line to buy tickets. Each transaction was taking about 4 minutes to process”…
Geez! Four minutes! What’s the problem, agents can’t count properly for change? The machines being used are a mess? Potential passenges don’t know about the fare costs and maybe also having a hard time counting out the necessary amount?
Is this symptomatic of Obamamania syndrome?
G Jiggy,
You must be one of those right wing nutcases who complain about everything our wonderful government and President are doing for us. These are not the same people who are trying to deliver Canadian style health care, these are the people who gave us a new baseball park when the people were too dump to know any better and voted no. And, the same people who made sure we had the correct govener. I know from personal experience that you don’t really have to pay to ride on the Sounder Train because no one checks for tickets. I have not had the pleasure of riding on the new light rail, but when I do, I’ll try to not pay so you well healed Republicans can take care of that with a nice tax increase that you deserve.
I rode the light rail today in the early afternoon. I left Pioneer square station at about 1:45. I rode to Tukwila. There were about 40 people in my rail car the whole way. I don’t know how many people were in the other cars. I was surprised that there were as many people as there were and it wasn’t even rush hour. I actually really liked it. I’m sure that some times the rail cars are empty – but sometimes the buses are as well – the bus that I took in yesterday during rush hour was nearly empty – but in any event I thought that the airport link was a nice ride. And busy!
“You must be one of those right wing nutcases who complain about everything our wonderful government and President are doing for us. These are not the same people who are trying to deliver Canadian style health care, these are the people who gave us a new baseball park when the people were too dump to know any better and voted no. And, the same people who made sure we had the correct govener. I know from personal experience that you don’t really have to pay to ride on the Sounder Train because no one checks for tickets. I have not had the pleasure of riding on the new light rail, but when I do, I’ll try to not pay so you well healed Republicans can take care of that with a nice tax increase that you deserve.”
Wow, I think that just lowered the IQ of everyone that read your “dump” post.
So, the lone liberal that posted here is also the one who is stealing from Sound Transit by not paying his fare, and then encouraging everyone else to steal.
Nothing more need be said about the liberal mind. It was perfectly illustrated right in this combox.
To the rude lib who posted “You must be one of those right wing nutcases”, this REFORMED Democrat says RIGHT ON!!! You BETCHA, and PROUD of it!!!! I’m no longer a brain-dead zombie swallowing the propaganda from the media. I finally WOKE UP!!! The rail system is a JOKE, except we are having to pay for it. Where are all the AL Gore Global Warming deluded ones? Why aren’t they saving the planet and riding the rails?
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