KevinMenoLBT9716 Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 566 has an MCI today #9721P to Auburn Station Link to post Share on other sites
busdude.com Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 Atomic Taco is right, I saw them with a big sawzall cutting the roof off the maintenance building today. I overheard the plan was to raise it using bottle jacks and 4x8's once they got it free. Link to post Share on other sites
19adam99 Posted January 19, 2016 Report Share Posted January 19, 2016 Saw the first Sound Transit ADL Enviro500 91501 heading to Everett Station. (Photographed at Pacific & Smith) Link to post Share on other sites
KevinMenoLBT9716 Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Gillig CNG 41504 on route 596 this AM Link to post Share on other sites
anonymous guy Posted January 21, 2016 Report Share Posted January 21, 2016 One of Capitol Hill Station's screens has been displaying a blue screen of death (BSOD) for a few days now...I went and shot it with my telephoto lens (through 2 fences!) and it turned out great: https://twitter.com/SounderBruce/status/683523981366837248 This is reminiscent of the "OneBusAway" based real-time stop displays crashing. Link to post Share on other sites
busdude.com Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 ST is going to order 12 CNG MCI D4500 coaches. 11 Expansion and one to replace 9524 which was burned up. http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/Motion%20M2016-03.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
northwesterner Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 ST is going to order 12 CNG MCI D4500 coaches. 11 Expansion and one to replace 9524 which was burned up. http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/Motion%20M2016-03.pdf I'm not in love with this choice. NJT ordered the CNG coaches and immediately ran into GVWR issues and were restricted from carrying standees on them. Not sure if anything has changed with the engineering to alleviate this problem. Link to post Share on other sites
roamer Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 I'm not in love with this choice. NJT ordered the CNG coaches and immediately ran into GVWR issues and were restricted from carrying standees on them. Not sure if anything has changed with the engineering to alleviate this problem. I'm wondering if it will make much difference to Sound Transit? Currently, I believe their technical maximum standees on an Sound Transit MCI is 13 and since ST has a relatively strict threshold for adjusting service in order to eliminate standees on any given trip, it may not make much difference to them if it turns out to be that their new CNG coaches also may prohibit standees. It will definitely be an inconvenience and make for poor public relations, however, to have that restriction. I guess we'll see if ST will announce the same standee restriction once they go into service. I remember reading where the extra weight of a NJTransit CNG MCI is attributed to the larger fuel tank. NJTransit also is ordering MCI hybrids. I wonder if they will also have such standee restrictions since I'd imagine that the weight of all the hybrid components would have to weigh more than the CNG fuel tank. Link to post Share on other sites
busdude.com Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 I don't think they ever favored standees and they try to adjust their service to prevent it from happening on a regular basis. I do know their special event trips have standees on a regular basis, not sure about their peak trips as i try to take the train instead. They may have even had a policy prohibiting it at one point, but i dont remember. I think the NJT problem with the CNG D4500s was both gross weight and added weight of standees vs. engine power to move them. a CNG engine has less torque than its diesel counterpart and this may also have been part of the problem as well. Link to post Share on other sites
rickycourtney Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 I wonder how much of a problem it will actually be to not allow standees. Consider that at the height of rush hour... the trip from Seattle to Tacoma takes well over an hour, with no stops. I'm a relatively young and fit guy... but there's no way I'm gonna stand in the aisle for over an hour. Link to post Share on other sites
Atomic Taco Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 I wonder how much of a problem it will actually be to not allow standees. Consider that at the height of rush hour... the trip from Seattle to Tacoma takes well over an hour, with no stops. I'm a relatively young and fit guy... but there's no way I'm gonna stand in the aisle for over an hour. Put 'em on the 592 or 595; it's amazing what a half hour headway might make you do. Link to post Share on other sites
roamer Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 My writing ability is so poor that what I want to say results in my posting something that isn't what I want to say ...lol. No, that's what I meant. ST seems to have relatively stringent guidelines regarding standees that it appears they are constantly trying to adjust schedules so that no trip ends up having standees on a regular basis. So yes, I'm thinking that even if their CNG MCI coaches prohibit standees, it may not be that huge an issue for them. Their guidelines are also based on time that a passenger is required to stand. Therefore, on those Tacoma/Seattle routes, it looks as if as if they definitely do not want people standing on those longer trips.I just found the 2014 Service Guidelines I downloaded a few years ago in my files. Attached are the two pages pertaining to Passenger Load Guidelines (topic #10). I'm not sure if there's a more current update or not but at least it will give an idea of what they use. p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf p13-14 2014_service_standards.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
SounderBruce Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 University Link opening date announcement is tomorrow: https://twitter.com/SeaTransitBlog/status/691796786722250753 Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Bus Fan Posted January 26, 2016 Report Share Posted January 26, 2016 U-link opens on March 19, 2016: http://www.ulink2016.org/?utm_source=social%20media&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=opening%20date%20announcement Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Bus Fan Posted January 30, 2016 Report Share Posted January 30, 2016 As I understand it, most trains will be 3 cars, with some 4 car trains during rush hour and special events. I through that two cars and three cars during peak period until 2018 then three cars after that and four car during special events. Must be my luck - I'm a rider of North routes in the tunnel and almost always get an older coach. Wasn't there a concern over a bend in one of the tunnel tubes with a 4 train car? Would that still be concern with future expansion to Central Link light rail? Link to post Share on other sites
busdude.com Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 CNG gilligs 41508 41509 41510 have entered service today. I got the chance to ride one today and it was interesting, they seem to lean into corners and make some intresting sounds going down the road (tall first gear, intresting shifting, warble sound from the rear end at speed). Link to post Share on other sites
busdude.com Posted February 17, 2016 Report Share Posted February 17, 2016 41511-13 appear to have entered service today. By my estimate this leaves only 9405, 9408, 9411-12, 9416-17 left in active service. Link to post Share on other sites
SounderBruce Posted February 25, 2016 Report Share Posted February 25, 2016 New ridership report out, covering the rest of 2015. Press release with the year-end totals and averages: http://www.soundtransit.org/About-Sound-Transit/News-and-events/News-releases/sound-transit-riders-set-new-records-taking-trains Here's the breakdown for average weekday boardings in 2015: Sounder commuter rail: 14,600 – a 15 percent increase from 2014 Link light rail: 35,573 – an 8 percent increase from 2014 ST Express regional buses: 62,981 - a 3 percent increase from 2014 Sound Transit services saw impressive overall growth in addition to the average weekday boardings. Here's a look at the 2015 annual boardings by the numbers: Sounder commuter rail: 3.8 million boardings, 13 percent increase from 2014 Link light rail: 11.7 million boardings, 7 percent increase from 2014 ST Express regional buses: 18.3 million boardings, 4 percent increase from 2014 Full report: http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/q4_2015_rpt_service_delivery.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
jay8g Posted February 27, 2016 Report Share Posted February 27, 2016 I went on a tour of the S 200th St Link extension this afternoon. Pictures are here. Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Bus Fan Posted February 27, 2016 Report Share Posted February 27, 2016 Will the Angle Lake station have bus loop located in it or near it? Link to post Share on other sites
Atomic Taco Posted February 27, 2016 Report Share Posted February 27, 2016 Will the Angle Lake station have bus loop located in it or near it?Page 28: http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/projects/link/south/20140609_May22OpenHouse.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
maximase86 Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Did 9563 and 9121 ever come back or did those get replaced? S Link to post Share on other sites
Blue Bus Fan Posted March 1, 2016 Report Share Posted March 1, 2016 Sound Transit 3 is including infill station on the original lines and ST2 lines: http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/01/st3-infill-stations/ Link to post Share on other sites
SounderBruce Posted March 2, 2016 Report Share Posted March 2, 2016 Sound Transit 3 is including infill station on the original lines and ST2 lines: http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/01/st3-infill-stations/ You misunderstood the piece. These infill stations are candidate projects for ST3, whose draft will be released this month for consideration. They are not included yet, along with every other candidate project (ranging from Ballard to UW, to Kirkland-Issaquah Link). Link to post Share on other sites
pnwelevator Posted March 4, 2016 Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 What's going on with those three diesel Gillig BRTs that Metro got for Sound Transit (9124-9126)??? I know they were delivered a while ago but why is it taking so long to get them into service??? Link to post Share on other sites
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