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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- A ride on Sound Transit's Central Link Light Rail from International District/Chinatown station to SeaTac Airport. We ride in car 116(A), at the back of the train.
Please note: Beacon Hill and Rainier Beach stations are not shown in the video due to camera battery errors.
Sound Transit's Central Link is an electrified tram-style Light Rail line from Downtown Seattle to Sea-Tac Airport - energized at 1.5KV AC. A couple of extensions opened in mid-late 2016 - one North to the University of Washington, and one south to Angle Lake.
I really don't get where people saying "it's always empty" and "it's a waste of money" are coming from. I have been using it daily ever since it opened and have never seen it empty. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen more than two empty seats. This is especially true since the opening of the UW and Capitol Hill stations; the light rail gets you from U District to Westlake Center in less than 8 minutes. A lot faster than a car or a bus! And the ridership is going to explode even more once it reaches Bellevue and Overlake. It's clean, efficient, packs a lot more people in and gets you there so much faster, and it's implemented in combination with expanded bus rapid transit and infrastructure improvements that benefit everyone. I really don't understand what you all are whining about.
Likely just people who never use public transport and complain because the freeways are jammed up, and they feel the money used to build Sound Transit's light-rail should have been used on new freeways instead. We get that in Vancouver a lot too, but the argument there is 'it always breaks down and is late' whereas the opposite is the case. Trouble is up here when it does go down, there's little alternative to choose from.
Welwyn22 Which is seriously mind-boggling to me, because have they not looked at a MAP?! Seattle is on this tiny strip of land between Lake Washington and Puget Sound that forms the narrow middle of an hourglass shape. There is literally no ROOM to build more freeways! Or parking lots! It's literally mass transit or nothing at this point.
Ikr, and the RUSH HOUR. UARRRGHHHH.
Wow the light rails up there in Washington sounds pretty good. Sounds like a turbine
I am planning to move to Seattle, WA..
Where, exactly does the ride to the airport drop you off? And is it easy to get from that point to the terminal?
Renzo The station is about a five-minute walk from the north end of the terminal. There's a walkway along the perimeter of the parking garage.
Should’ve been fully grade-separated
the breaks in this footage are jarring and ruin my immersion in this ride
Yes, unfortunately at the time I had not really comprehended the ability to make the smooth transitions, plus my PC at the time was very temperamental about too many transitions.
There is a newer ride heading into Seattle from the Airport that has transitions to reduce the jarring.
The cost of construction comparable with Dubai metro. And Dubai metro is a masterpiece if you ask me! It has half a million riders per day while this 'cheapskate' 30 thousands. And these bureaucrats are planning 'east link' which will cost 2.8 billions more! Why not just use those billions as a toilet paper?
And one more .... this cheapskate defeats the purpose of public transportation cause it creates more congestion. People who use cars have to wait all the time to cross the rails! Thanks again to our bureaucrats for throwing our money away.
MrDVKY They finished the last phase ahead of schedule AND under budget, and there's clearly enough demand for it that it's won on the ballot multiple times now. I'm not sure where you're getting these numbers from, but they don't match reality at all.
MrDVKY Also, the whole point of expanding the transit system is to render the cars unnecessary. Or at least less necessary. More people using mass transit means less cars on the road. And honestly, the statistics say there's NO additional congestion caused by the light rail system. So you have to wait less than a minute for the train to pass; so what? You wait longer for pedestrians to cross the street!
Never mind detecting gravity waves, the stupidity waves are radiating from Sound Transit. Moving to Eastern WA is not a complete shield. Must get to Idaho for safety.
+Daniel Daniel
No. The tin foil hat cannot protect you. That electrically conducting eddy current Faraday shield only works on magnetic fields in space-time. The Stupidity wave works on tax dollars-commute time.
+Clark Magnuson This coming from a gobshite moron what bubbas his rifles to useless shit. Don't come to Idaho, we don't want your fucking kind here.
Clark Magnuson I really don't understand why you're so salty about light rail. It's been working quite well so far, particularly in combination with other transit improvements. We can't keep depending on cars; we just plain don't have any ROOM for them. Do you have any specific complaints, besides just "it's stupid and it sucks"?
It is insanely expensive. There are people who think with numbers and there are people who think aesthetically.... like small children.
We hunters outnumber the heroin addicts in Idaho. Not so in seattle, it is lost.
Always empty, Billions for nothing.
Depends on when you ride it. I've been on it numerous times where you can't even get a seat, and yeah times when it is empty. Certain times in the evening it gets quite full.
It was very busy that last time I rode it and I could not get a seat!
Clark Magnuson Seattle is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. An efficient mass transport system will be necessary for the future success of the city. Major international cities can't function well without mass transit.
James Hendershot
FDR used the rail line to make a highway through the Florida Keys, because cars are so much more efficient than rail. Now fools are turning I5 lanes from cars to rails. But that is better than turning it into horse and buggy.
Seattle Sound transit was the worst transportation idea in the world in terms of person lane mile time dollars, but has now been exceeded by Honolulu.
+James Hendershot please don't tell me it's a fast growing city ... Bout to google lol