

If you traveled there at any time in the last-well, since the station opened-you've probably been driven to the point of breaking-to the point of just hurling yourself into the abyss because it would be quicker-since the escalators were (are) sitting unused and broken behind a yellow "do not enter" gate. That's a lot of room for a lot of fault, especially when the escalators are already temperamental. Of that stalled time, 8,221 hours of escalator downtime came straight from the dreaded University of Washington light rail station. You could have at least 115,734 standard bowel movements (they should take no more than 10-15 minutes, if it's more you may have hemorrhoids. In that amount of time you could go to Mars and back 1.5 times.

Three times.ĭuring 20, according to documents obtained by The Stranger, the escalators in Sound Transit light rail stations broke down 2,115 times for a total of 19,289 hours. Sound Transit's light rail station escalators malfunction so frequently that the report containing all their recent breakdowns was so massive it crashed my computer.
