kinther@lemmy.world to Seattle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoWhat’s the best way to avoid the Revive I-5 traffic?www.kiro7.comexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkWhat’s the best way to avoid the Revive I-5 traffic?www.kiro7.comkinther@lemmy.world to Seattle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squarenshrubs@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·20 days ago@hildegarde @Rentlar @seattle The issue is that BNSF owns the tracks Sounder uses between Seattle & Tacoma & schedules freight trains on them. Amtrak has the same issue. If we had an additional set of tracks that were not BNSF, then we could have increased Sounder & Amtrak frequency. https://seattletransitblog.com/2019/09/14/expanding-sounder-south/
@hildegarde @Rentlar @seattle The issue is that BNSF owns the tracks Sounder uses between Seattle & Tacoma & schedules freight trains on them. Amtrak has the same issue. If we had an additional set of tracks that were not BNSF, then we could have increased Sounder & Amtrak frequency.
https://seattletransitblog.com/2019/09/14/expanding-sounder-south/