Seattle Times: Sound Transit fares on ‘unsustainable’ trajectory, CEO warns
Revenue from fares on Sound Transit buses and trains has cratered in recent years as operating costs climb, creating a “financially unsustainable” trajectory for the regional transit agency, CEO Peter Rogoff told board members Thursday. Depressed ridership because...
Seattle Times: Sound Transit’s downtown Seattle tunnel would bring riders 145 feet below the street
Mark Nowlin/Seattle Times If Sound Transit manages to build a second light-rail tunnel through downtown Seattle, passengers would use elevators, escalators or stairs to descend as deep as 145 feet to catch a train. That new 3.3-mile central-city tunnel would be the...
Opinion: Accountability is Missing for Sound Transit – Maggie Fimia
Here’s part of the famous “Paint is Cheap” speech by the head of the Federal Transit Agency in 2010: “Riders often want rail – but you can entice diehard rail riders onto a “special” bus, sometimes by just painting the bus a different color than the...