5 trains within 15 minutes (Seattle Link Light Rail)

At Beacon Hill station, Southbound platform towards Tukwila International Boulevard station, lots of trains to handle the post-Mariner game traffic. Each and every train was full of people. 1st train at 4:25 pm, 2nd train at 4:28 pm, 3rd train at 4:30 pm, 4th train at 4:35 pm, and 5th train at 4:40 pm

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• Seattle
• Beacon Hill
• underground
• subway
• station
• Sound Transit
• Link light rail
• transit
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[theraptorfan100]

Do they run extra trains after games? Because according to what I've read peak frequency is only supposed to be one train every 7.5 minutes on the line for now.

It's a shame they don't run 3 minutes regularly. Vancouver's new downtown to airport rail, which also just opened less than a year ago, runs every 3 minutes from morning rush throughout midday to the end of evening rush between Waterfront Station and the south end of the city. Each of the two "legs" has 1 every 6 minutes.

[OranViri]

@theraptorfan100 Yes, they run extra trains if needed.

[Lukelr]

And, is there only ONE track in this tunnel? So trains are only going one direction? Or is there one on the other side??

[OranViri]

Yes, the other track is on the other side. There are two tunnels, one for each direction. The elevator bank is between the two.

[Larsky1010]

Great photography! Elegant trains! Frequent service! What more could one ask?

[Apollo580]

@Larsky1010 More places to go! We need to expand!

[soundersbloke]

There's be people shoving people into the train cars if there were more rail lines like this aorund Seattle. MORE RAIL PLEASE!

[XSENTONEX]

looks packed inside

[Apollo580]

@dumbass1984 .... all of that was really unnecessary....

[dumbass1984]

@Apollo580

we are, the but reason we cant that quickly is as follows:

$6 billion - amount from Obama stimulus plan the goes to transit

$150 billion - amount that goes to highways

$2.14 billion - cost of Link (caused lots of complaints)

$4 billion - cost of viaduct tunnel (one 15th the length, 13rd the capacity, little to no complaints about cost)

[dumbass1984]

If the fare checkers catch you, it's a fine of $124. They do random checks.

[louiearmstrong]

it is fucking awesome. and you can get away with riding free...

[leonel1982]

I agree. I'm so happy that this is really being used! Definitely when the UW and Airport get hooked up, it'll be obvious to the naysayers that this was a long time coming!