WE ARE WEST SEATTLE RESIDENTS CONCERNED ABOUT SOUND TRANSIT’S PROPOSED LINK LIGHT RAIL EXTENSION
A great series of comments from the Midweek Roundup @ Seattle Transit Blog discussing why ST3 is so broken.
“The second thing Dow and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell did was to move Midtown and CID Stations to CID/N and CID/S by changing the preferred alignment after the vote. They did this because the county has an obsolete administration building at 4th & James, and this way ST would help fund its demolition and replacement…” — Mike Orr’s comment
Midweek Roundup: Limbo Comments | Seattle Transit Blog
While multiple members of Sound Transit’s Board of Directors voiced concerns over the rising price tag of ST3 projects jeopardizing funding for extending Link’s spine, only two members showed any.
“Fundamentally this is a project that has seen dramatic cost escalation — it has gone from $4 billion to over $7 billion. And all our programmatic work that our capital team is going to do not going to pull $2 billion out of this project,” Dammeier said ahead of the vote. “It’s going to still be dramatically over anything we’ve envisioned and anything the system budget can handle in mind.”
Sound Transit Board Rubberstamps West Seattle Link Route, Amid Cost Issues | The Urbanist
How to comment on the West Seattle Light Rail extension: You have less than 30 days
“The comment process for Sound Transit meetings is not easy. These hints might help.”
LETTER: How to comment on the West Seattle Light Rail extension: You have less than 30 days | Westside Seattle
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More voices on WSLE's soaring costs:
“The Board’s motion shows that Sound Transit is approaching the problem as though it is just about the agency budget, but that narrow view ignores the bigger question raised by the FEIS, which is that despite the extravagant cost the project accomplishes very little.”
The West Seattle Link Extension has gone off the Rails | Washington Policy Center
“While the summary talks about the positive impacts, it misleads the public by not even mentioning any adverse carbon impacts from its construction.”
West Seattle Link and Climate Change | Seattle Transit Blog
Sound Transit expansion continues to be a hot button issue and the co founders of Smarter Transit are calling for a pause on the expansion efforts, despite being big believers in public transit.