Sound Transit says service disruptions for S, N lines will remain in effect

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Sound Transit Pulls Sounder Cars Out of Service, Temporarily Reduces Trips


Unexpectedly, Sounder commuter rail service has been operating on reduced schedules since Thursday, with no firm timeline for the full restoration of service yet announced. Sound Transit, which owns the service, has taken commuter rail vehicles out of service due to what it called a “maintenance lag” by its contractor for train upkeep, Amtrak.

The agency initially issued a notice last Wednesday night that all morning Sounder service would be canceled Thursday, but the agency quickly issued a revised notice that only some trips would be canceled until required inspections were addressed and that regular afternoon service would operate.

Nonetheless, by that afternoon some service remained canceled. About a quarter of all Sounder trips remain canceled this week, with the Sounder N Line, which runs from Seattle to Everett, most impacted. Service on the higher ridership Sounder S Line is less affected — though both lines have struggled to regain their pre-pandemic ridership levels.



On Sunday, Sound Transit spokesperson David Jackson described the situation as fluid and said that Amtrak was conducting the required maintenance and inspections of train cars over the weekend.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/16/sound-transit-reduces-sounder-service-temporarily/

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1. A one or two sentence summary of why would be helpful.

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2. They have to do maintenance on the locomotives and cars

As such service is cut by 50%