Earlier this month, the Seattle Seahawks won the Superbowl, but the city was not done etching records into the history books. On Wednesday, February 11, Seattle hosted a victory parade and smashed previous one-day records for light rail ridership and scootershare/bikeshare, as upwards of one million people attended the festivities stretching across downtown.
Sound Transit tallied a record-smashing day, exceeding 200,000 boardings on Link light rail. By February 26, Sound Transit had zeroed in on a total of 225,000 boardings.
“Wednesday didn’t just break our daily ridership record. It blew it out of the water,” Sound Transit said in a video released on Instagram. “Early estimates show more than 200,000 boardings on Link. That’s 100,000 more than this day last year. Sounder added more than 20,000 boardings, and many more took ST Express. As numbers continue to come in, we expect them to go up! Thank you, everyone!”
