Interesting chart showing how Sound Transit stations have significantly more elevators on a per-station basis than other peer agencies. - ThreadSky

typewriteralley.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Interesting chart showing how Sound Transit stations have significantly more elevators on a per-station basis than other peer agencies.

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sfa64.bsky.social•59 days ago

I can't speak for every agency here but for LA at least the large number of at grade LRT stops is pulling down the average, vs ST has a higher proportion of grade separated stations. Would love to see this data with at grade stops removed. 3 avg is high still but 2 for redundancy seems prudent.

troutgirl.bsky.social•59 days ago

And yet none of those elevators words! The ST account on here is 90% elevator closures.

bvd100.bsky.social•59 days ago

To their credit, the elevators and escalators have been way more reliable over the past year, ime.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•59 days ago

You never hear anything about the elevators that aren't broken.

troutgirl.bsky.social•59 days ago

:) You're right, it's probably only 2 or 3 stations affected per day.

macdiehard.bsky.social•59 days ago

Seems all these elevators would significantly add to cost of projects. Any idea why Sound Transit puts in so many elevators?

typewriteralley.bsky.social•59 days ago

During the presentation it was said partly due to a need to improve passenger flow but also partly because we have more elevated and underground stations

macdiehard.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you