Riders detrain after inaugural "Golden Ticket" ride (Photo: Andrew Villeneuve/NPI)
Sound Transit built University Link with the promise that trains would offer a speedy underground ride between Westlake Center, Capitol Hill, and the University of Washington. Now that U-Link is open to the public to ride, we’ve been timing trains to see how well they do in actual service.
This post will chronicle the results of our tests.
Tests between single stations
In these tests, the stopwatch was started the moment the doors closed at the station of departure and stopped when the doors opened at the station of arrival.
Tests between the northern and southern terminuses
Note that the test included time spent on dwells at stations in between, not just the amount of time the trains were in motion.
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