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What’s the best way to avoid the Revive I-5 traffic? (www.kiro7.com)
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[–] Nshrubs@mstdn.social 4 points 1 month ago

@hildegarde @Rentlar @seattle The issue is that BNSF owns the tracks Sounder uses between Seattle & Tacoma & schedules freight trains on them. Amtrak has the same issue. If we had an additional set of tracks that were not BNSF, then we could have increased Sounder & Amtrak frequency.
https://seattletransitblog.com/2019/09/14/expanding-sounder-south/