Would anybody actually ride a transit service if it were begun on the Eastside railroad?
Every time a new rail transit system is proposed in the U.S., detractors claim that nobody will ride it and that it is a waste of money. But experience throughout the U.S. as well as abroad shows that well planned systems typically experience large ridership and that ridership grows over time as people adjust their travel patterns and density increases near stations. There would likely be a particularly strong demand for transit service on the Eastside railroad because it parallels I-405, which is the most congested freeway in the Northwest, and because it passes through or near numerous major destinations, and the large population growth in the region.
