“Light rail will not ease traffic congestion.
Yes, that's a fact.”

David Earling
Former Chairman of Sound Transit
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www.bettertransport.info

What You Need to Know About
Sound Transit and Light Rail (PDF)
 
Get Author's Biography Here (PDF)

Cost, Performance, Reality graph 
COSTS:
Original 1996 Sound |-----            2.3 Billion$
Transit Budget          
Spent as of 2007    |-------------  6.7 Billion$

PERFORMANCE:
Rail scheduled for  |-------------  21 miles
completion by 2006  
Finsihed so far    |         0.0 miles
                                    ten years behind schedule

REALITY:
Total daily present   |------------      12 million
trips in Puget Sound
Projected daily trips |----------------16 million
by 2030
Sound Transit          |-           214,200 (1.3%)
projected share of 
light rail trips