The Sound Transit Ballard Link Extension in Seattle is a major expansion project aiming to connect downtown Seattle to the Ballard neighborhood with nine new light rail stations. This project includes a rail-onl
Sound Transit’s expansion plans for new West Seattle Ballard Link Extensions (WSBLE) will have significant disruptions and impacts to Seattle, particularly the Chinatown-International District. Learn more about Uwajimaya’s perspective and read our response to Sound Transit’s Draft Environmental Impact...
Passengers aren’t paying fares when they board the Link, and it’s starting to worry Sound Transit. The Sound Transit board of directors, alongside Puget Sound region civic leaders, met Wednesday to discuss the long-term ramifications of the simple fact that revenue generated from soliciting far...
The Sound Transit 3 (ST3) program will add 62 miles of new light rail to the Seattle-Tacoma area, completing a 116-mile system by 2041. Two key projects will connect the neighborhoods of West Seattle to Downtown Seattle by 2030, and Ballard to Downtown Seattle by 2035. These projects ...
Then turn the trains from Tacoma at the improved Northgate tail track for a total transit time between TDS and Northgate within two minutes of that between TDS and Ballard. As money savers don’t do West Seattle; instead, turn the Everett trains using the turnback loop at Forest Street an...
Famous 1971 billboard (via HistoryLink.org) This is it, folks, my last at-bat for New To Seattle. After five years and nearly 300 postings, I’m moving on again, to what will be something like my 16th home in 45 years. My new place of habitual abode is in–drum roll, please–La...
Sound Transit,全程Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority(普吉特湾中部地区公共交通署),是服务美国华盛顿州西雅图都会区的公共交通运营管理机构,负责建设和运营金郡(King County)、斯诺霍米什郡(Snohomish County)和皮尔斯郡(Pierce County)三郡范围内的轨道交通、通勤火车、城际快速公交和城际BRT系统 。