That is little better than transit services achieve today for the vast majority of the ST service area population and jobs outside Seattle. So please be well advised that no unbiased study of regional transit system plan alternatives has been carried out to determine the most cost-effective plan of action. Once MOS-1 of rail is implemented, it puts this region on an unalterable course to fund and build extensions. We are several phases into that federally supported corridor study. It finds that rail transit in that corridor would average between 4500 and 8000 rail riders per day on any segment in both directions combined by 2020.
Similar findings are likely on other planned extensions.
We entreat you to demand from the PSRC and Sound Transit technical study data that provide justification of the full Sound Transit light rail plan before proceeding with any phase. The concerns of Sane Transit and a rapidly growing number of this region's taxpayers and news media are far more extensive than just a concern for the upward spiraling of time and cost. We recognize that the cost of huge public projects can and do increase. We urge that your review of the FFGA for federal tax subsidy of the Seattle area light rail program will include a serious analysis of its cost-effectiveness in addressing this region's transportation crisis. We urge you to seek acceptable responses from both the PSRC as well as Sound Transit to the above issues and questions.