Speak out as the Sound Transit Board prepares to make a generational mistake and skip Chinatown with its new downtown light rail tunnel. Sound Transit is on the precipice of making decisions that will waste your time, over and over again, forever. In the spirit of setting a better example
Plans for South Downtown “FrankenHub” would be disastrous for generations of light rail riders As we enter the seventh year of Sound Transit 3 (ST3) expansion planning, Sound Transit is again at a crossroads and needs to finalize a plan for the Chinatown International District Station (CID). On the positive
At long last, this is (probably) your last chance to comment on the Ballard and West Seattle Sound Transit 3 (ST3) alternatives before options are selected and sent forward to the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process. The recently released alternatives were covered in The Urbanist last week and the deadline
The letter below is from the Seattle Transportation Coalition and was signed by Seattle Subway, the Seattle Transit Riders Union, and The Urbanist. Other groups have adopted similar talking points in their own letters to Sound Transit, to encourage Sound Transit to plan Sound Transit 3 (ST3) investments with extreme
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has put a pause on construction of Center City Connector (CCC): The only high capacity transit project planned within downtown Seattle between now and 2035. Seattle is expected to see nearly 50% job growth over the next two decades. After a decade of work to make
HB 2201, a bill devised to cut $2.3 billion dollars from the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) budget, has reared its ugly head again. Though the bill was taken off the House floor calendar last minute today, it could return in the very near future. Look up your legislators online