crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054
Source and additional pics:
https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772
Also from the same thread:
For people who aren’t intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.
Edit: it looks like it was not “several miles” but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:
Its not several miles, but it was at least a quarter mile. The station is elevated, but about a quarter mile away the tracks are level with the road. They are up a large curb, there is “no car” signage and you have to literally drive off a road, over a gap and onto train tracks, but its not miles away. You can almost see the station from the place she likely entered:
There apparently is video footage from the transit system, but it wasent been released yet so we don’t know where she entered the tracks yet.
Seattle’s local satire site “theneedling” hitting all the right notes as usual:
https://theneedling.com/2026/06/03/crazy-socialist-mayor-of-seattle-says-cars-not-allowed-to-drive-on-trains-only-train-tracks/
Oh my god, it reads just like so many people on Nextdoor.
They are absolutely in their element with this one. Another great blitzkrieg on it :
https://theneedling.com/2026/05/02/mount-baker-station-celebrates-opening-of-new-park-and-ride-to-psychiatrist/
Great additional info, thanks!
Seeing the pic of it makes it a microscopic iota easier to understand how the mistake happened, but very clearly any person who’s capable of driving shouldn’t ever make that mistake. And even if a person accidentally started turning on to the tracks, any mentally capable driver would’ve immediately recognized that it was totally wrong and backed out of it.
Can you imagine how terribly wrong the car motion would’ve felt as soon as the metal tracks rose above the road surface?
The driver is 70 years old. I suspect that was a factor in the mistake.
Seems very plausible. IMO a drivers license should have mandatory retesting every 10 years. And the driving test should be much more thorough
it should just be a straight up 10 year validity of licenses and a full redo of ALL the steps to get a license, no reason not to have that. Standards change, and you’ve gotta teach people the parts that have changed.