Microsoft and Seattle Children’s pay a monthly fee to use the stops, which could provide another transit revenue stream if the program were expanded. The goal o

Microsoft and Seattle Children’s pay a monthly fee to use the stops, which could provide another transit revenue stream if the program were expanded. The goal of the pilot is to help transportation officials determine whether private employer shuttles can share public transit stops without disrupting service. I know of many companies that have these special shuttle programs for their employees which I suppose is a neat way of using capital available, but why don't those same companies instead subsidize the costs for employees of using and thereby increasing ridership on already existing transit options-and forge some kind of public/private partnerships to improve public transit in their respective cities? Perhaps I'm missing something here, but while the goal of more vehicles off the road isn't something you'll get a complaint from me about, the schism of private transportation "for employees" and pub transit "everyone else" when it comes to public transit doesn't sit quite well with me for some reason.