OK, I actually have a legitimate Last Night post in the queue (spoiler: It involves John Cage), but first, a vent: I rode Link Light Rail in to downtown this afternoon, as I do most Saturdays, this time on one of Sound Transit's one-car "trains." (The transit agency is reducing rail trains from two cars to one to save an estimated $460,000 a year. The truncated trains are essentially buses on rails).

Even with no major sports events---or, for that matter, people trying to ride with bicycles (each car has space for just two bikes, or fewer if, as was the case on my train, people have filled the bike spaces with their luggage)---the car was at crush capacity:



Strollers, luggage, people standing everywhere---and this was near the south end of the northbound line (it got worse, but I was on the phone and couldn't take a picture). When I got off at Westlake Station, the southbound train was already standing-room only. Is this the kind of advertisement Sound Transit thinks will entice non-transit-users to take trains instead of driving?