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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state's Sound Transit system faces an $11.5 billion budget...

The design-build contract for the Federal Way Link Extension is more than 25% complete, with final design scheduled to complete by mid-2021.

Sound Transit finished construction on its elevated Northgate Link light rail station early last week. (Sound Transit) Sound Transit announced an important milestone this last week, having “substantially” finished construction on all three Northgate Link light rail stations. Construction on the Roosevelt light rail station was finished early in 2020, followed by the U-District station over the summer. The elevated Northgate station was the final piece of the puzzle, wrapping up over the last week. “This achievement is remarkable given the construction challenges posed by the COVID-19 pa...

There's been a lot of Sound Transit news -- good and bad -- the last few weeks. Test trains are running to Northgate, but the budget is not in good shape.

The cost for the lines that will connect Ballard to West Seattle has more than doubled. Sound Transit Location, location, location means more, more and more money for Sound Transit regarding the light-rail line extension to Ballard, Wash., and West Seattle. Sound Transit announced the construction of a line connecting Federal Way and the Tacoma Dome and a maintenance facility in South King County has increased more than 50 percent. Rising real estate costs and a spike in construction costs are behind the spike. Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff admits the numbers are sobering, but not catastrop...