en.Wedoany.com Reported - The daily ridership of the Seattle area light rail line has reached 155,000, setting the highest record in the United States.

This growth is primarily attributed to the new cross-lake line that opened on March 28, which traverses the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, the world's first floating railway bridge to carry light rail operations. Since the new line opened, light rail ridership has increased by approximately one-quarter compared to February (about 123,000). Data from Sound Transit shows that total boardings on the light rail and streetcar system reached 4.8 million in April.

Despite the success of the new line, operational challenges remain. The north-south Line 1 and the newly opened east-west Line 2 share tracks within the downtown Seattle transit tunnel, and the integration of the lines has increased scheduling complexity. Maintaining precise headways is crucial to preventing systemic cascading delays. Currently, the peak headway for Lines 1 and 2 on the shared segment is 4 minutes. Sound Transit previously projected a post-pandemic daily light rail ridership target of 185,000 for the entire three-line network (58 miles in length).

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