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because it is unknown how many customers chose not to ride Sounder rail after a particular <br />landslide event has impacted service. Other than the original $368 million provided to BNSF for <br />the permanent easements and track improvements necessary to meet track -capacity requirements, <br />as well as station construction, Sound Transit does not have additional capital investments in the <br />corridor beyond what was approved in the 1996 Sound Move ballot measure. In 2008, voters <br />approved a second platform and other station access improvements at the Mukilteo facility in the <br />Sound Transit 2 ballot measure. Additional operating costs are incurred by Sound Transit when <br />buses are required because of cancelled trains, which can cost several thousand dollars per day. <br />These costs, however, are offset by the elimination of operating costs from cancelled train trips. <br />In the 2010 to 2011 season, when there were 70 cancelled trips in a season, average daily <br />ridership decreased by approximately 10 percent, and it was more than a year before ridership <br />returned to previous levels. The 2012-2013 season took a particularly heavy toll on Sounder <br />north ridership, where 206 trips were cancelled, which nearly tripled the earlier high of 70 in the <br />2010-2011 season (Table 4). Although overall annual growth in Sounder ridership exceeded 10 <br />percent during 2012, Sounder north line ridership was down 7 percent (1,215 average boardings) <br />in July 2013 from the October 2012 high of 1,304 average daily boardings (Table 5). <br />Table 5. Sounder Commuter Rail North -line Service <br />Year <br />Annual Boardings <br />Average Daily <br />Boardings <br />Percent Growth on <br />Average Daily <br />Boardings <br />2013 <br />TBD <br />1,147* <br />6%* <br />2012 <br />307,846 <br />1,144 <br />21% <br />2011 <br />280,767 <br />946 <br />-9% <br />2010 <br />303,060 <br />1,024 <br />-5% <br />2009 <br />319,719 <br />1,080 <br />2% <br />2008 <br />314,072 <br />1,062 <br />26% <br />2007 <br />252,299 <br />843 <br />27% <br />2006 <br />201,299 <br />665 <br />43% <br />2005 <br />151,773 <br />466 <br />68% <br />2004 <br />88,903 <br />277 <br />*YTD through June 2013 Data <br />Amtrak Long -Distance Service <br />The Amtrak Empire Builder and Coast Starlight trains operate in Washington State with a <br />terminal in Seattle at King Street Station. Because the landslide activity occurs primarily north of <br />Seattle, the Empire Builder has experienced more impacts from the landslides than the Coast <br />Starlight. The Amtrak long-distance train service has been impacted by landslides as long as <br />service has been in existence. <br />9 <br />