Smarter Transit Annual Update – March 2022
Warm Greetings! Our Annual Outreach from Smarter Transit Leads, John Niles and Maggie Fimia (approximately 2 minute read) Hello, Our efforts to hold Sound Transit and our leaders accountable are going on three decades now…that’s how long some of you have been at this....
Seattle Times: New data shows remote work surges, transit use collapses among workers in downtown Seattle
A bus pulls into the boarding/drop-off area at the Mountlake Terrace Freeway Station, adjacent to the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times) In 2019, before the COVID pandemic, nearly half of downtown commuters took transit to work,...
Empty trains, deserted stations cost taxpayers billions. Will BART, VTA and Caltrain riders ever return?
A lone commuter waiting for a train. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) Once bustling stations that catered to tech commuters now resemble hushed mausoleums Here’s a transit board member — San Jose’s Mayor speaking of the VTA light rail network —...