WES: The first year in numbers

By Ed Johnson

The Times, Feb 4, 2010 (22 Reader comments)

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TriMet’s Westside Express Service or WES is now a year old. In honor of this milestone for the train service that connects Wilsonville, Tualatin, Tigard and Beaverton, here’s the first year of the new service, told in numbers.

$161.2 million. That’s the total — and final — cost of the project which started as an idea more than 10 years ago.

$43.9 million over budget, from WES original estimated cost $117.3 million.

$2.5 million, the amount Tualatin and other local jurisdictions are spending to create a railway quiet zone due to increased neighborhood noise from WES.

$150,000 the cost of additional vintage rail cars being refurbished for use in the system as back-up cars in case the other, new railcars break down. (Break downs this year resulted in WES riders being forced onto shuttle buses.)

1,170 the average number of daily commuters who use WES.

$2.50 the cost of a ticket to ride WES.

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