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None of Seattle's typical "too cool for school" stand-offishness. Tens of thousands of cheerful riders, oohing and cooing, tweeting and twittering along SoundTransit's light rail line. Dozens of staffers in dayglo green shirts directed (human) traffic, and the trains (speedy, quiet) ran every ten minutes or so, tunneling under Beacon Hill and emerging high above MLK in Mt. Baker. (Big crowds expected at the Stadium station, where the MLS Sounders played Chelsea.)
First person we encountered on the train was King County Councilman Larry Philips (SoundTransit board member and candidate for county executive) who told us he'd been waiting forty years for this day. "Every other big city on the West Coast, from San Diego to Vancouver, has had light rail for years." Who cares if it's going to take longer to get to SeaTac by train than on the 194? We're up-to-date now!
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I gotta disagree with your 194 comment. First, that's the SCHEDULED 194 time, which is subject to huge fluctuation and generally takes much longer than scheduled. Also, the last 194 leaves SeaTac at 9:15 PM... after that, you're stuck taking the 174. And I pitty the fool taking the 174 after midnight. Link will always take 35 minutes, and will run from 5 AM to 1AM, 20 hours a day.