Sound Transit Mulls Cost-Cutting Plans for Light Rail Projects

Sound Transit mulls cost-cutting plans for light rail projects

Sound Transit's Budget-Balancing Ideas All Stop Short of Delivering Rail to Ballard

The Sound Transit board got its first look Wednesday at three potential scenarios geared at getting the overbudget Sound Transit 3 (ST3) measure back into financial alignment – with all three options stopping well short of delivering light rail to 15th and Market Street in Ballard, as promised to voters in 2016.The different paths were put on the table at an all-day retreat held in Tacoma, the latest attempt to push board members to grapple with…

LIGHT RAIL: More cost-cutting possibilities presented at Sound Transit Board retreat - including 'deferring' West Seattle (updated)

4:19 PM: Sound Transit Board members spent much of today in an all-day “retreat” meeting in Tacoma (open to the public in person but not streamed). But now that it’s over, the Seattle City Councilmember who’s on the board is sounding the alarm about new proposals for cost-cutting options. We’ve already told you about the increasing likelihood the West Seattle Link Extension plan would be trimmed to two stations – Delridge and The Junction (cutti…

Light Rail expansion divides Sound Transit Board

(The Center Square) - Facing a $35 billion budget deficit, the 18 members of the Sound Transit Board of Directors made their case Wednesday for which segments of the unfinished light rail system should go forward and which should be…

Sound Transit Confronts $35 Billion Budget Gap Threatening Voter-Approved Light Rail Expansion Across Puget Sound

The regional transit agency is pursuing an agency-wide cost-cutting initiative as inflation and rising construction expenses jeopardize the $53.8 billion ST3 plan approved by voters in 2016. Nearly a decade after Puget Sound voters approved one of the largest transit expansion packages in North American history, the regional agency tasked with delivering it is staring down a $35 billion funding gap that threatens to reshape the scope and timelin…