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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Seattle has opened a subsection of their new Light Rail Line (Line 2). It doesn't connect to downtown yet (still working out engineering issues with the floating bridges), but they were smart enough to start running the section already complete.

Massive (by US standards) ridership has ensured. People needed the transit!

Seattle's geography is really tough for transit systems. The quantity of bottlenecks from riders and mountains is quite high. Trains are a necessity going forward to tie together the region.

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[-] aevek@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

I live in the area and now that it finally connects two places with the Redmond link and not just Microsoft offices I use it at least once a week. It's amazing.

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Reading this "smart enough to start running the section already complete" made me happy.

[-] msmc101 4 points 1 week ago

i went to the american planning association conference out there and they gave use day passes for the light rail and it blew my mind it was incredible

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