Sound Transit 3 | How Austerity Can Ruin a Great Transit Project
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 Published On Aug 3, 2023

Sound Transit 3 is an ambitious expansion to Seattle's Link Light Rail system, but recently, Sound Transit has been experimenting with deleting voter approved stations and making weird decisions that would make the entire expansion less useful.

Tell them to stop wasting time on endless process:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/sou...

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Move Seattle Wins in ST3
https://sdotblog.seattle.gov/2016/11/...

Remembering The Death Of Seattle's Major Transit Initiative
https://www.kuow.org/stories/remember...

King County voters on Forward Thrust bonds approve stadium and aquarium and nix transit on February 13, 1968.
https://www.historylink.org/File/2168

Deep Seattle Light Rail Stations, Other ST3 Details Emerging Ahead of Draft Plan Release
https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/01/1...

What We Know About Sound Transit’s Alternatives to a Chinatown Station
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/03/2...

Sound Transit Board Backs Last-Minute Proposal to Skip Chinatown and Midtown Stations
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/03/2...

Seattle Subway: Sound Transit Must Commit to a Shallower 4th Avenue CID Station
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/02/2...

Sound Transit sweats over spot for South Lake Union light-rail station
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...

Harrell Changes Course Again Backs ‘Shifted North’ Denny Station
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/07/2...

Sound Transit Wants to Start Over on ST3. Tell Them No.
https://www.thestranger.com/guest-edi...

Amazon's Position on Light Rail Station
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/poli...

Transit Advocates Push to Save South Lake Union Light Rail Station
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/06/2...

As people work from home, Sound Transit bets $350M on 3 new parking garages
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...

Sound Transit Board Okays Displacement Heavy Everett Link Alternatives
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/07/0...

Build Light Rail In-Road Instead of Demolishing Housing, Balducci Urges Sound Transit
https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/06/2...

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