Illahee, check ridership for the Sounder, SLUT, passenger ferries that have come and gone, etc. The only mass transit system that works in this area has been buses. Metro has serious financial/funding issues but it doesn't help that billions have been thrown down the rathole that is Sound Transit. Commuters from Olympia to Marysville aren't seeing any benefit from the billions wasted so far. Not to mention what it's done for taxpayers in this region.

Look 50 years down the road and tell me how running an occassional train down BN's line into Seattle at the cost of hundreds per ride is going to help business or commuters.

Some balance might help the region, but it ain't gonna happen.