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![]() ![]() The only way places as remote as North Bend work is 1) there has to be a lot of stuff within easy and fast access of the station and 2) it has to be an intermediate point between population centers. The bullet trains work because of the high density of housing and employment near the stations. Instead we build today to make the line of yesterday. That’s what we need to be thinking about today to make the line of tomorrow. By the time the region’s population doubles, North Bend and Monroe are going to be semi-urban. Let’s think forward to the future, not concern ourselves with the regional borders of the present. A 3.4 mile line? A waste of time, space, and money. Like Japanese bullet trains.īallard -> UW is the opposite of what I want to see in transit. I’d even cut the number of current stops in half. To me, ST needs to be more BART than BART. ![]() Not since my first experience with it in London back in the 90s, and not since. I’ve never been a fan of urban focused light rail. I am all about getting light rail out past the suburbs and into the rural country. I use distance per dollar as my benchmark. RossB, I don’t use ridership per dollar spent as my benchmark for a successful ST project. Lowers rider subsidies for this line with greater travel miles per trip and more riders per trip. Leverages existing infrastructure from West Seattle Link. Kirkland 90,000 (Northern Bellevue-Redmond area more than doubles this number) Makes for an efficient lineĮspecially when ridership miles is also considered.Ĭan utilize new 522 BRT stations as Link stations (I don’t see this Link line occurring until after 2040 by which time BRT will have served its’ usefulness).Ī 1 seat ride for Kirkland and Ballard to UW.īy doing Ballard to Kirkland it will lower overhead and rider subsidies and compensate for a dinky Ballard-UW lineĪlso would offer Link stops to major King County destinations: Here the addition of only 1 line adds two major destinations (UW and DT Seattle). Gray lines being ST3 and yellow Kirkland Transit CorridorĪ 1 seat ride to downtown Seattle from Bothell, Kenmore, Lake City Way, Wallingford and Fremont with a 2 seater to UW Lawyers are currently working on all disclaimers. ![]() My first draft of an ST4 work in progress. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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