Sound Transit just released its ridership figures for its first full week of operation. See press release below.

ST estimates its light rail segment carried 12,000 riders per weekday.This figure however, represents the number of trips, not riders, served by Sound Transit. And trips do not equal riders.

For example, a rider who makes a round trip commute to and from work counts as two trips. If that same rider took a bus to lunch and back, he counts as making four total trips during the day.

Because daily trips can double, triple and sometimes quadruple count ...

Last year I covered how the federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) was running out of money. At that time, the feds transferred about $8 billion to keep it solvent.

In June of this year, we learned the HTF was again heading for bankruptcy. Yesterday, the House voted to transfer another $7 billion from the General Fund to keep the highway budget in the black through September. The Senate is expected to take up the matter next week.

Using General Fund dollars to subsidize the HTF is remarkable because historically the highway system has always been funded ...

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Seattle light rail train kills man on tracks Seattle Times It was the first fatal accident on the 14-mile Sound Transit line since it opened July 18 between downtown Seattle and Tukwila. and more »

Sound Transit won't budge on berms TheNewsTribune.com Sound Transit is unlikely to make major changes to the design of a Sounder commuter rail extension through Tacoma's Dome District despite opposition from ...

Signal failures temporarily keep Link trains out of Downtown ... Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog Only a few days after inaugurating service on its new Central Link line, Sound Transit is still working diligently to tackle technical glitches that ... and more »

King County Executive Kurt Triplett announced a proposal Thursday to save Metro Transit's planned RapidRide bus service with a new property tax offset by a reduction in taxes that pay for passenger-only ferries.

The bureaucrats planning a new bridge across the Columbia River between Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington have so far spent $65 million — and by this time next year, they will be up to $100 million — all without accomplishing a thing. That could have been enough money to replace the Sellwood Bridge, which is in [...]

Years ago I asked Ron Tober to get the demographics on just who would be and then later who was riding light rail.

He said the did not do that type of research.

Now the Observer puts out an analysis from CATs that shows the light rail rider has other options.

Meaning the ride the rail but will never ride the bus.  So our costs of about 36 dollars each way to carry these ...