Today marks the first birthday of Central Link light rail, which during its inaugural year of operations attracted an estimated six million riders.
By the Numbers: Link’s first year of service on the 16-mile line serving 13 stations between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac International Airport:
- Total estimated ridership for the year: 6 million
- Passenger miles traveled: 43 million
- Average rider trip length: 7.1 miles
- Total light rail train miles traveled: 1.2 million
The Central Link line is the first portion of what will be 55 miles of light rail serving the Central Puget Sound Region. A 3.1-mile underground extension from downtown Seattle north to Capitol Hill and the University of Washington is under construction and will open in 2016. Voters have also approved extensions to Northgate, Lynnwood, Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island and northern Federal Way scheduled to open by 2023. Photo/David Mullarkey Images
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- Yet Another Car vs. Train at Othello (4/2/10)
- Another Car vs. Train in Othello (3/11/10)
- Full Coverage: Light Rail Opening Day (7/19/09)
- Car vs. Train at MLK & Myrtle (6/29/09)
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I take it that “ridership” means trips. Six million in a year sounds like a lot, but if I’ve done my arithmetic correctly, this works out to about 8,200 round trips per day. How does this compare with bus ridership in the area? It would be revealing to know how many “unique” riders there were last year, & how many five-round-trips-per-day riders there were. And one wonders, what has the public paid, & how much will the public pay, on a per-trip basis? (In other words, what’s the amount of the subsidy per round trip?)
1 year….
What’s the tally?
Lightrail: 3
Humans: 0
Cars: 0
Is that accurate?
1 dead human, but that was a suicide.
Since you are keeping score.
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