system/systems

Note to Seattle public transport officials: Consider merging all your many agencies. You might pick up some travelers that way.
Yes, yes, you'll probably save money too, and not just a little. But the other part of it is that by splitting up management of the various bus/train/etc services, you make job of figuring out how to use the system vastly more complicated.
We here in Oregon have an advantage in this regard. If you want to use public transit in the Portland metro area, you check out Tri-Met, the reginal transportation entity, and especially its excellent light rail system MAX. It has one unified set of routes and carriers, and it's simple to figure out.
Headed to Seattle tomorrow, I want to use public transit to make my way around the area - from Tacoma to downtown Seattle. I plan to do that, and after a couple of hours research I think I figured out how to do it. But there was one agency after another to traipse through. Pierce County had one, Snohommish had another, King had - don't get me started on King. And the pieces fit together - how?
Well, apparently, they do fit together, and the system looks comprehensive and useful.
But they could have made it a lot more simple.