Comments on: Link to the Mariners!

By: busgeekchick

busgeekchick — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:01:50 +0000

Andy – why not just go to http://www.soundtransit.org to find out roundtrip costs? Imagine 10,000 emailing that same question…would put a strain on any customer service department to answer all questions like that.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:59:41 +0000

Since when has it been easy and cheap to park at the airport?

By: Mickymse

Mickymse — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:09:19 +0000

Running rail to airports has much more to do with getting the large number of employees back and forth than moving travelers back and forth.

Link is actually fairly unusual in having the airport included in its initial line. Many of the biggest and most well known transit systems in the world did not add lines to their airport(s) until years after opening, and even then many often do so only with spurs of some sort.

Most travelers simply don’t take transit to the airport. They have too much luggage to carry. They have family/friends dropping them off or picking them up. They are renting a car for their visit. Etc.

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:12:07 +0000

“RT also functions as an All Day Pass, and is valid for unlimited rides on date of purchase.”

I would love some clarification on this, because I use E-purse, and want to know if there is any sort of cap or something when using ORCA that way. I don’t buy RT tickets, I just tap on and off, so if I were to ride, say, 3 times, more than two hours between each ride, would this end up costing me more than if I had just purchased a RT ticket from the TVM?

By: EvergreenRailfan

EvergreenRailfan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:48:20 +0000

I got a temp job in Renton Tomorrow, LINK probably will give me a chance to avoid the Torchlight trap the 7 usually gets in, by switching at Lander.

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:46:11 +0000

They’ll die off. They always do.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:38:04 +0000

Thanks!

It may be the reason why ST customer service does not reply my e-mail…they have no idea either…

By: ST Guy

ST Guy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:55:05 +0000

Thanks, Zach. Music to my ears. And isn’t it interesting how quiet the opposition has been since Launch day? No trash talking at all (knock on wood…). Their numbers are shrinking, methinks.

By: ST Guy

ST Guy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:52:55 +0000

I’m still learning too. On Link, for now, just about any pass will work until Jan. 1. By then we hope to be down to just unexpired FlexPasses and Puget Passes, plus ORCAs of course. Will be MUCH simpler when ALL the passes get converted over to ORCA.

As I understand Metro, a TVM ticket is good for a one-zone ride on Metro until the time the ticket expires (2 hrs after purchase). Not sure how Metro would count the time on a RT ticket…

By: Zach Shaner

Zach Shaner — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:43:25 +0000

A RT ticket bought at a TVM is good for an all-day pass just on Link, or for the value of the fare on Metro, ST, etc…? I’m still confused about the fare system.

By: Zach Shaner

Zach Shaner — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:40:54 +0000

My father and I went to the game tonight. We both left at the same time, he was driving from Renton and I took Link from Tukwila. I beat him by 30 minutes, and the train was mostly full of Mariner fans. It made my day to hold one over on my anti-transit father. =)

He thankfully agreed to take Sounder to the game tomorrow.

By: Galen

Galen — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:39:31 +0000

I heard that the pine st stub tunnel holds up to 3 cars, not 2 cars.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:25:37 +0000

Thank you, ST Guy!!!

Can I use round-trip ticket on buses or Sounder? If it does, does it work like a one-zone fare or others?

Thanks again!

By: ST Guy

ST Guy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:43:50 +0000

I’m out of commission Friday night so I can’t be there myself. Would love to hear reports re how the loading went at Stadium Station. Quantity/quality of help at the station from ST “volunteers.” Length of lines at TVMs, etc. Number of trains involved until the crowd was cleared. Thanks in advance.

Same for tomorrow night before and after Torchlight, reports from any/all area stations would be welcomed.

By: ST Guy

ST Guy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:39:49 +0000

As I understand it, the 2-car restriction in the Pine St. stub tunnel turn-around doesn’t come into play until it’s set up to receive the TBM from Capitol Hill.

By: ST Guy

ST Guy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:38:17 +0000

Link TVMs sell one-way and round-trip tickets; RT being twice the price of one-way. RT also functions as an All Day Pass, and is valid for unlimited rides on date of purchase.

For game attendees, Please Please Please buy those RT tickets and avoid the TVMs after the game is over. Return trip is valid until end of service at 12:xx AM.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:22:33 +0000

Initial ridership numbers should be available next week according Sound Transit’s CEO Report from today.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:47:15 +0000

Does anyone have a good idea how the light rail round trip ticket cost and work? I sent an e-mail to Sound Transit customer service, as expected, there is no response.

Thank you!

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:35:39 +0000

We can’t until U-Link is done, I think. Well, we could for southbound. Maybe they will.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:34:28 +0000

My plans to build a private toll road to the stadiums just can’t compete with big government subsidies. I think the FTA should shut the streets down to level the playing field.