Truly, the world in which we now live doesn't have that much use for a focus on commuter transit for the 7 AM to 3 PM downtown office crowd. We need all-day frequent service.
If Sound Transit doesn't figure this out, then yes, ridership will be in the toilet.
@falcon There are three perceived service levels for public transport. They are not the same.
Hourly service: "It's there. It's affordable. Maybe I use it if I can arrange my life around it."
Regular service (every 20 minutes or so):
"It's convenient but I have to look at the time table to minimize waiting time."
Galaxy brain (shorter intervals than 10 minutes): "I don't look at time tables because public transport is a dependable commodity and it just works. Why would I use something else?"
Indeed, that would be ideal, it seems people take the car as they see public transit is not reliable, however cars on the road, clog up the road, adding to the issue of public transport not being reliable.
One solution here is to have lanes / routes dedicated for transit, so you can just get from A -> B quickly.
@zleap @nblr it's not because of traffic that they don't run more buses in Puget Sound.