Everett Herald: "Buses a better deal than Sounder trains, panel says"
I agree.
From The Everett Herald: "It cost $32.38 per boarding to operate Sounder North in 2011, compared to $10.19 for Sounder South, according to the report. The cost for the entire system, buses included, was $12.71. ... When the first Sound Transit sales tax measure was approved by voters in 1996, daily ridership for Sounder North was projected at 2,400 to 3,200 per day by 2010, the report said. Since beginning in December 2003, its high has been 1,200 boardings per day in June 2008; the low, about 700 in December 2010."
Clearly this may be a better fate for Sounder North... sitting in a railyard waiting to backup Sounder South. Or to be sold somewhere. Or as an extension of Sounder South.
Everett Herald: "Buses a better deal than Sounder trains, panel says"
I agree.
From The Everett Herald: "It cost $32.38 per boarding to operate Sounder North in 2011, compared to $10.19 for Sounder South, according to the report. The cost for the entire system, buses included, was $12.71. ... When the first Sound Transit sales tax measure was approved by voters in 1996, daily ridership for Sounder North was projected at 2,400 to 3,200 per day by 2010, the report said. Since beginning in December 2003, its high has been 1,200 boardings per day in June 2008; the low, about 700 in December 2010."
Clearly this may be a better fate for Sounder North... sitting in a railyard waiting to backup Sounder South. Or to be sold somewhere. Or as an extension of Sounder South.