WA: Tacoma Link ridership has grown since expansion. How have new stations fared?

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The T Line, once known as the Tacoma Link, has seen 1.5 million boardings since 2024, exceeding both pre-pandemic levels and Sound Transit estimates two years after the public transit agency launched several new stations, data shows.

Opening in September 2023, the Hilltop Tacoma Link Extension added 2.4 miles to the city’s 1.8-mile streetcar line and more than doubled the number of stations, bringing passenger service to the Stadium and Hilltop districts. Sound Transit officials had projected the bigger T Line — whose five cars in use on a normal weekday each can hold about 100 people — would serve 2,000 to 4,000 daily passengers by 2026.

Since 2024, ridership has largely hovered around the high end of those estimates or surpassed projections, according to the agency’s publicly available ridership data through July.

There were 3,618 average daily boardings per month in 2024, a News Tribune analysis of the data shows. That figure has increased so far this year to 4,079. ................(more)

https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/news/55317117/wa-tacoma-link-ridership-has-grown-since-expansion-how-have-new-stations-fared