After years of having absolutely no parking, today Sound Transit’s Mount Baker Station celebrated the opening of its new one-of-a-kind one-stall Park and Ride to a Psychiatrist.
“Unlike other Sound Transit Park and Rides with hundreds of stalls, this one specializes in providing one parking space for someone nuts enough to drive their car on train tracks for a half mile and 40 feet up into the air straight into the path of an incoming light rail train,” said Sound Transit spokesman Deuce Bray. “Just drive on up, park, and ride the car waiting for you in the pick-up area to go straight to a psychiatrist to find out why you think a GPS would ever want you driving directly on train tracks and up onto an elevated train platform.”
Though it’s the first of its kind in Seattle, many other cities with at-grade public transit trains offer the service such as San Francisco, Toronto and Adelaide.
“I know not everyone is a fan of Park & Rides, but services like this help more people get more comfortable with the idea of getting a ride to a hospital for a psych check,” said Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine. “And then with any luck, that’s when their loved ones permanently take away the keys, et voila, you have a new public transit rider for life.”
At press time, a second user of the new Park & Ride to a Psychiatrist was heard yelling “trains will not replace us!” before being quickly whisked away to Harborview.
