{"id":1551,"date":"2014-02-28T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sound-transit-sets-record-in-2013-for-train-bus-ridership\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T03:20:33","slug":"sound-transit-sets-record-in-2013-for-train-bus-ridership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/sound-transit-sets-record-in-2013-for-train-bus-ridership\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Transit sets record in 2013 for train, bus ridership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a title=\"train\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtransit.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Sound Transit<\/a> set annual ridership records in 2013 for boardings on its trains and buses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Overall, the agency saw approximately 30.3 million boardings last year, an increase of more than 8 percent over 2012, according to a Feb. 27 Sound Transit news release. Average weekday boardings topped 101,000. Central Link light rail ridership grew 11 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Light rail ridership has seen double-digit increases in every year of operation,&#8221; said Dow Constantine, Sound Transit Board Chairman and King County Executive. &#8220;This new record only confirms how essential transit is to our regional mobility and prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The ridership increases were:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 ST Express regional buses: 57,132 average weekday boardings and 16.6 million annual boardings (8 percent increase from 2012)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Central Link light rail: 28,953 average weekday boardings and 9.7 million annual boardings (11 percent increase from 2012)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Sounder commuter rail: 11,587 average weekday boardings and 3.0 million annual boardings (8 percent increase from 2012)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound Transit set annual ridership records in 2013 for boardings on its trains and buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}