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May 21, 2007

The Light Rail Lunch Bus

The Seattle Transit Blog has an interesting write-up of an experience aboard the Sound Transit Lunch Bus. There's a lot of goodness in the short post, including fun facts like this:

Beacon Hill is mostly glacial till and sand, so building the tunnel was not as bad as it could have been. Actually, since the machine can only bore 50 feet a day, and they need one tunnel for each direction, it takes almost two years to built one mile of tunnel. That's one reason the connection to the University will take until 2016. The other is that a mile of tunnel costs about $280 million.

Of course, if you're like me, you went, "What Sound Transit Lunch Bus?" A quick click over to the ST Web site reveals:

Take a tour of Link's initial segment construction. The Community Outreach Division will be hosting the Lunch Bus tour. This is a guided bus tour that will take you to and along the current construction sites. At any time during the tour, please feel free to ask questions. The tour is then followed by lunch at a local eating establishment.

Looks like I've missed the window to get on the tour this cycle (Friday is the next - and final - one listed, and the RSVP date is today), but I'm definitely going to keep my eyes open for the next one.

Anyone wanna go? It's mid-day (11:30 AM - 1 PM), but could be a blast. And if it's anything like the impromptu Sound Transit Tour Elaine and I did in March, it promises to be excellent.

Posted by Gavin Shearer at May 21, 2007 4:48 PM. Posted to Transit.

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