Light Rail On the Rise in Seattle
Photo from wings777 via Flickr
As dust kicked up by Eastlink clears out, some Seattlites wonder….does light rail even work?
According to a recent Seattle Times article, yes it does. We saw an average of about 16,000 weekday riders in January and in increase over over 8% in just ONE MONTH.
Currently Sound Transit’s light-rail Link runs from Westlake Center through Ranier Valley and to the Sea-Tac Airport. But expansion is coming (slowly but surely…as we see with Eastlink) to subrubs north, east, and south by early 2020′s and extension to the University District by 2016.
[UPDATE]
February Link Light Rail ridership numbers are now in and we hit 16,741, which is the highest month since the revenue service began in July 2009!
Here is a link if you want to keep up with <Day-by-day ridership numbers>.
Thanks to @JN_Seattle for the heads-up!
February Link Light Rail ridership is out now: February 2010 week day boardings average is 16,741, highest month since revenue service started July 20, 2009.
However, goal of 26,600 by end of 2010 is “a long way to go,” according to Sound Transit spokesperson.
Day-by-day ridership plot is maintained at http://www.bettertransport.info/pitf/Linkpassengercount.htm
Thanks for the update John! Check out our post, we added all that info you gave! Thank you!!
I’m glad even though we may be far from our goal, we are still gaining momentum.