![]() ![]() Tame the wilderness on the American continent in the Alaska free update, a new region filled with challenges. And sign up for BREAKING NEWS emails delivered straight to your inbox.Ride a massive open world across the Alps, where the powder is always fresh and the run never ends. Get breaking news alerts in the FREE FOX 13 Seattle app. The steep declines come as overall costs are projected to increase with an expanded light-rail network by as much as $3 billion through 2046. Rogoff, who is leaving the agency this spring, presented the board with data showing a jump in "fare evasion" from 3% in 2018-19 to between 10% and 30% in 2020-21, based on information collected by fare enforcement officers or ambassadors as they ask riders for proof of payment.Īs many as 40% to 70% of riders were "nonfare" passengers - which includes riders in 2020-21 who were exempt from fares for various reasons, such as age, as opposed to 14% in 2018-19. The ambassador program launched in September of last year. Fares went back into effect in June, but enforcement has not. Sound Transit briefly suspended all fares in April and May 2020, as the state went into widespread lockdown. In November 2021, ridership across all Sound Transit modes was just over 2 million people, compared to around 4 million before the pandemic.įare revenue from employer-provided ORCA cards was also down, from $48 million in 2019 to $13 million in 2021. ![]() The agency’s board had previously set a goal of 40%, which it has only met once, in 2017. When all is accounted for, Sound Transit staff forecasts that just 5% of light rail’s operating costs will have been covered by fare revenue in 2021. Where revenue covered 32% of Link light rail’s operating cost in 2019, it made up 8% in 2020. ![]() Sound Transit will receive more than $250 million in two federal grants for its light rail projects.įrom 2019 to 2020, revenue from fares dropped from $96 million to just $30 million as ridership dried up during shutdowns. Sound Transit awarded federal grants for light rail projects ![]()
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