Link frequency dropping again

In what is becoming a remarkable year of operational failures, beginning Monday Link peak frequency will drop to 12 minute intervals (from 8 minutes) because they're running out of operators due to Covid-19. Things will remain the same at off-peak times.

Link operators are provided by Metro. While Link is obviously more critical than most (if not all) bus routes, Metro's Jeff Switzer explains that Transit operators in bus operations aren't directly interchangeable with Link light rail operators, so it's not as simple as taking a bus driver off the street and putting them in a light rail vehicle."

Tacoma Link, directly operated by Sound Transit, will run a Sunday schedule both today and December 12th, for similar reasons.

The various online schedule and real-time tools are likely to be inaccurate during this period.

There is no word on when the previous week's level of service will be restored, which in itself is reduced from what we enjoyed in the before times.