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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Extending the Yellow MAX Line to Vancouver Is TriMet’s Worst Idea Yet
Description: At a December 17th meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Interstate Bridge Replacement, legislators were promised that the proposed light rail service to Vancouver, WA would arrive every 6.7 minutes during weekday rush hours.
We don’t need to guess whether this forecast will be wrong. We already know it.
Before the Yellow Line opened in 2004, TriMet promised that peak-hour trains would arrive every 7.5 minutes by 2020.
That never happened. In fact, the Yellow Line only arrives every 15 minutes, 50% below what was promised.
Not only did TriMet planners give the wrong fo...