Sound Transit’s new light rail connection over Lake Washington has unleashed a tsunami of new passengers between Bellevue and Seattle, boosting the regional total to 155,000 daily boardings.
Transit staff verified the startling April number on Friday, and said similar loads continued through May. Those preliminary counts, based on laser scanners inside the railcars, represent an instant increase of about one-fourth.
The regional agency counted 122,700 average daily riders in February, prior to opening the world’s first passenger line on a floating bridge March 28…