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by ISL
1050 days ago
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Especially if that service reached PAE, SEA, PDX airports. There's a ton of SEA->PDX flights. https://www.portseattle.org/sea-tac/flight-status?flight_dat... shows 23 unique aircraft flying SEA->PDX today and 32 unique aircraft flying PDX->SEA At ~$80/seat one-way and ~80 passengers/flight, that's >$100M/yr in revenue. Existing trains take 3.5 hr for the journey. Existing flights take 1 hr for the flight + time spent in security, so trains aren't that far off. Furthermore, there are ~30,000 cars traveling each way each day along I-5 between Seattle and Portland (https://www.chehalisbasinstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/201...) . Speedy train service really would make a difference. |
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There must be a business case in this surely, even if it’s worked out based on minimum wage as that’s a lot of commuters.