Link Ridership Soars 46% After Crosslake Connection Opening
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Weird, it's like the more places it goes the more useful it is
Go to Ballard, you cowards!
Divide the # of people in Ballard by the current projected cost ... the per-person cost (if -everybody- rode it) is ginormous.
The cost of this whole gorram thing is ginormous. We're ten years over schedule and 50 million over budget. Let's not pretend that this makes fiscal sense.
Ballard alone would add 60,000 daily riders. It has more rider potential than the rest of the spine that was approved, and all of Ballard overwhelming voted for and paid into the system that is refusing to serve them.
What ballard and the whole line needs is a shift in process and methodology:
https://www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconnect-and-automate-ballard-to-west-seattle-rail-to-save-st3/