Solarbird 
If you build it...
From the article:
Yonah Freemark, senior researcher at the Urban Institute, was the first to notice something was up, when he spotted an eye-popping count of 4.8 million Sound Transit light rail and streetcar boardings for April, in the National Transit Database.
“The most ridden in the nation, above L.A., Boston, or San Diego,” he posted on Bluesky this week.
Vancouver still crushes us, of course, so we aren't #1 in Cascadia.
But we're working on it.
toni 
@moira Dieter Ludwig, a regional German official in the sixties went against the trend for cars and said “we need to bring the trains to the people. Pick them up where they live, and bring them to where they want to go.”
When the first tram-train, light rails that can also go on standard regional tracks, opened in Karlsruhe in 1992, ridership increased fivefold. Now people can ride from their commuter town to the city centre and back without changing the mode of transport.
I would love to see the U.S. (and Germany fwiw) to get over car brain and make life safer and easier by building good public transport systems. People would use it. Just as they used to, before private cars were a thing.
@toni Seattle had the Freeway Rebellion in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which is why we _don't_ have two more north-south freeways and like four or six east-west freeway connectors carving up the city. But we didn't make the next logical push, going to busses instead, partly I suppose because of the Boeing Bust kind of imploding the local economy. But in '96 we voted in the first steps of this and while it's been a long haul we are getting there.