The Comparable Number for Seattle is 7.6 Percent
By Richard Eriksson on March 18, 2005 - 1:17am
Looking for something else entirely (i.e. whether Tranlink and Metro Vancouver have some kind of deal going), I found a mention of Vancouver's regional transit authority in commentary on Seattle-area transit policies by Ted Van Dyk of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Northwest metro areas don't need to make bad choices. Vancouver, B.C., has undertaken a rail-bus-minibus approach to regional transportation that is cost effective and getting people out of single-occupancy vehicles. Pat Jacobsen, who runs Translink, the Greater Vancouver Regional District, presented the district's multiyear plan to the Redmond conference. Some 12 percent of people in the Vancouver area ride public transit to work, up from 10 percent three years ago. The comparable number for Seattle is 7.6 percent.We're on the wrong road for traffic fixes
