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Transportation News Archive
Link
Light Rail Public Meetings
10/01/04 Sound Transit
Sound Transit is hosting a series of public meetings in various neighborhoods
regarding Link Light Rail. There will be meetings in the University District,
Roosevelt and Northgate in mid-October.
MonorailRecall.com
02/09/04 MonorailRecall.com
We are a group of concerned citizens organizing in preparation for a possible
Monorail revote by informing the public about this escalating financial and civic
disaster.
Victory
day for fans of light rail
10/25/03 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Signing of deal for $500 million grant sets off celebration. It's official.
The
deal is done. "Touchdown! We win!" said King County Executive Ron Sims,
chairman of Sound Transit's board.
Bush
administration backs Sound Transit’s light rail
02/03/03 The Seattle Times
A $75 million grant for Sound Transit light rail has made it into President
Bush’s s proposed budget for 2004, leading agency leaders to
predict that the federal government will soon provide even more money
to start
construction of an initial line between Seattle and Tukwila.
Monorail,
light rail in 'showdown' over funds
10/15/01 The Seattle Times
Several billion dollars from now, commuters
could be whizzing in light-rail trains and elevated monorail cars from
Northgate to downtown Seattle and beyond.
Flexcar
gives many drivers a thrifty, easy alternative
10/01/01 Seattle P-I
With just one key, Sally Davis can open car doors all over Seattle and
Portland.She doesn't own any of the Honda Civics that she sometimes drives
to visit relatives in Ballard, go to church in Wedgewood or run errands
from her condo on Capitol Hill.
Sound
Transit looks south for its first line
06/29/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit yesterday decided to try to jump-start its embattled light-rail
project by focusing on an initial line from downtown Seattle to the city
of SeaTac.
Rail
agency is urged to skip tunnel
06/15/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit is under growing pressure to consider a light-rail route
through South Lake Union instead of tunneling under Seattle's Capitol
Hill.
Light-rail
talk grim: Time to cut losses?
05/20/01 The Seattle Times
Some Sound Transit board members are starting to wonder if there's a light-rail
project the agency can afford that's worth building.
Light
rail can't be finished by 2009
04/27/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit can't build a 21-mile light-rail system from SeaTac to Seattle's
University District by 2009.
Expect
backups with I-5 repairs
04/21/01 The Seattle Times
Interstate 5 in North Seattle will be restricted to two lanes 24 hours
a day for most of next month.
Light
rail can't be built as planned
04/13/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit's current plan for light rail is dead. The agency expects
to fall at least $190 million short of what it needs to build the proposed
$4.1 billion system.
Mayor
Schell's Transportation Blueprint
Winter 2001 Mayor's Office
Seattle Mayor Paul Schell recently released his "Transportation Blueprint"
for the city that calls for step-by-step development of transportation
choices, including better bus service and a system of exclusive bus lanes,
streetcars and possibly monorail lines connecting Seattle’s neighborhoods
over the next decade. Take a look and let him know what you think.
Schell:
Put South End segment of light rail first
04/10/01 The Seattle Times
Mayor Paul Schell, worried about growing problems with Sound Transit's
$4.1 billion light-rail project, wants to look at building the less-expensive
southern leg of the 21-mile system first.
Suspension
of light-rail funds urged
04/05/01 The Seattle Times
The U.S. Inspector General's Office advised Congress yesterday to hold
off giving Sound Transit money for its $4.1 billion light-rail project.
Federal
aid in jeopardy for light rail
03/30/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit expected a rough day in Congress yesterday, and it got one.
Its
own watchdog bites Sound Transit
03/09/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit's citizens-oversight panel yesterday criticized the agency's
$3.8 billion light-rail budget as "highly aggressive and optimistic."
Feds
to audit Sound Transit
01/27/01 The Seattle Times
Officials had planned to review the project in the next six months but
decided to start right away after they received a letter from U.S. Rep.
Harold Rogers, R-Ky.
Sound
Transit votes to take $500 million
01/12/01 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit took the plunge yesterday and agreed to accept a half-billion
dollars in federal money for its beleaguered light-rail project.
Price
puts Sound Transit tunnel on hold
11/17/00 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit put the light-rail tunnel on hold yesterday, saying the
current plan is just too expensive.
Lawsuit
seeks halt to light rail
10/24/00 Seattle P-I
Amid growing cost and accountability concerns that are casting a shadow
over Sound Transit's $1.9 billion light-rail project, a small but influential
group of critics yesterday filed a federal lawsuit in a last-hour attempt
to halt the project.
Proponents
keep monorail initiative on track
10/17/00 The Seattle Times
Forget Sodo Mojo. For many in Seattle, Monorail Mania has been a longer-lasting
and more important passion.
Are
the wheels coming off Sound Transit's light rail?
9/20/00 The Seattle Times
The biggest question facing this region did not appear on yesterday's
ballot. What to do about Sound Transit?
No
light rail in sales-tax plan; voters to decide just on bus funding
9/12/00 The Seattle Times
King County Executive Ron Sims wanted to raise the sales tax three-tenths
of a cent to support bus service and help build light rail to Northgate,
but the Metropolitan King County Council rejected the proposal yesterday.
Instead, the council endorsed a smaller tax request exclusively for bus
service.
Workshop
to Discuss Northgate Urban Center
9/6/00 The Seattle Press
The City of Seattle, King County and Sound Transit will host a design
workshop this fall to build on work that was started by citizens in the
Northgate Neighborhood Plan and Northgate Town Center Visioning Charrette.
Bus
or rail? Tax question will answer the debate
8/14/00 The Seattle Times
Today's King County Council vote is shaping up to define the way this
region tackles congestion in the next decade.
Board
delays decision on train route via tunnel
7/28/00 the Seattle Times
Homeowners worried their neighborhood might be ruined to make way for
a light-rail line to Northgate must wait to learn their fate.
Tunnel
under Roosevelt most popular transit plan
6/21/00 The Seattle Times
Sound Transit held its final public meeting - the last of more than a
dozen such sessions - yesterday evening to get comment on five possible
routes through the Roosevelt neighborhood to Northgate.
