The previous blog detailed how Sound Transit “Sustainability” should result in a transportation system whose operating costs can reasonably be expected to not be a perpetual drain on the area’s finances. That any system of internal accounting controls in which the cost of the system being implemented should not exceed the benefits derived.
The 2025 Sound Transit Report published in July included a Sounder staff of 28.2 full-time equivalent positions, a cost of more than $600 million for completion and a $45.90 cost per boarding for 2025. The August release of the 62-page System Expansion Monthly Status Report included 30 pages dealing with Sounder. Clearly considering it a priority.
The 2025 Sound Transit Report published in July included a Sounder staff of 28.2 full-time equivalent positions, a cost of more than $600 million for completion and a $45.90 cost per Sounder boarding for 2025. Their Ridership for June was 7172 average weekday Sounder boarding
Clearly Sound Transit has chosen to spend far more on Sounder than what would be reasonably considered sustainable if doing so required the cost not exceed the benefits derived. Sound Transit service area residents deserve far better for the taxes they pay than for what they will get from Sounder
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