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1 month ago Your assertion that aerial gondola systems don’t “offer sufficient capacity or expandability to meet West Seattle’s needs long-term” is inaccurate. At 4500 passengers per hour, SkyLink will offer more than twice as much capacity as Sound Transit predicts West Seattle will need by 2040. Also, aerial systems are easily expandable, as they offer different system capacities for different throughput requirements. The SkyLink 3S system could be expanded from the Junction area station to link with the Admiral business district and the WS Water Taxi. And/or an expansion co...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 27, 2020 805 Sound Transit’s Link light rail system is now running on 100 percent carbon-free electricity, making it the first major light rail system in the country to achieve this milestone. The accomplishment is made possible through an agreement with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to purchase wind energy directly from the utility’s Green Direct program. The agreement with PSE is projected to save more than $390,000 in electricity costs over the 10-year contract while also supporting the creation of local clean energy jobs. “Innovative projects like...

A Sound Transit train in downtown Seattle, Thursday, January 2nd, 2020. Credit: KUOW PHOTO/ Casey Martin What the federal stimulus bill means for Sound Transit projects Dec 22, 2020 Federal funding could have brought light rail access to Tacoma, Everett, Ballard, and West Seattle sooner. But the final bill failed to come to the rescue, said Sound Transit's CEO Peter Rogoff. Before Peter Rogoff came to Seattle to run Sound Transit, he worked as the undersecretary of transportation for President Obama. Not long before that, he worked in the Senate Appropriations Committee on...

The Sound Transit Board today approved a 2021 budget that will continue intensive work to deliver voter-approved transit projects across the region while also continuing to operate existing services. In the next four years, the region’s light rail system will grow from 22 to 62 miles and from 22 to 50 stations. These expansions include work to open service to Seattle’s Northgate area in 2021, Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood in 2022, Bellevue and Redmond in 2023, and Lynnwood and Federal Way in 2024. These major infrastructure investments will not only support the region’s future mobilit...

The Lynnwood Link Extension is now 25 percent complete. Civil construction on Sound Transit’s Lynnwood Link extension is now more than 25 percent complete, marking a major milestone for the project. The final drilled shaft was completed last Friday, and more than 130 of the project’s 188 columns are complete. In addition, 50 girder spans are now finished.  “Thanks to the hard work of the construction team and our contractors, the pace of progress on the Lynnwood Link extension has been remarkable,” said Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff. “Groundbreaking on the project was just over a...