▲ 27 ▼ Link Ridership Soars 46% After Crosslake Connection Opening (seattletransitblog.com) submitted 5 months ago by kinther@lemmy.world to c/seattle@lemmy.world 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] False@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) Weird, it's like the more places it goes the more useful it is permalink fedilink source
[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children) Go to Ballard, you cowards! permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children) Divide the # of people in Ballard by the current projected cost ... the per-person cost (if -everybody- rode it) is ginormous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tujio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 point 5 months ago* Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them. What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology: https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconnect-and-automate-ballard-to-west-seattle-rail-to-save-st3/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children) Divide the # of people in Ballard by the current projected cost ... the per-person cost (if -everybody- rode it) is ginormous. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tujio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense. permalink fedilink source parent [–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 point 5 months ago* Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them. What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology: https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconnect-and-automate-ballard-to-west-seattle-rail-to-save-st3/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 point 5 months ago* Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them. What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology: https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconnect-and-automate-ballard-to-west-seattle-rail-to-save-st3/ permalink fedilink source parent
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