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.”