Posted Sep 17, 2008, 3:59 PM
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Seattle is a much different city to walk around in than is Austin. I'd take a rainy day there over a hot summer day here any day of the week. And you've got a lot more stuff relatively near the ferry/train stations than we do next to our commuter rail endpoint. (Yes, I've spent a few days walking around downtown Seattle).
The key is that the ferry passengers, at least, have no other real option - the no-ferry drive option is, what, like an extra hour of driving in traffic? (or 10 or 15 bucks to put the car on the boat itself). Yeah, people will walk half a mile if it will save an hour of driving or . Is that a realistic lesson to take to other cities?
And, by the way, the Sounder ridership is pretty minimal for what it is (reserved guideway that penetrates a much stronger downtown than ours from a long ways off). That's not much of a counter-argument.
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