ST3 Cannot Be Delivered on Time, so Sound Transit Is Considering Light Rail Cuts

ST3 cannot be delivered on time, so Sound Transit is considering light rail cuts

Sound Transit will celebrate opening a light rail connection across Lake Washington later this month, but behind the excitement, the agency faces a brutal financial future. Sound Transit can't deliver on its ST3 promises to voters by 2046 as planned.

Sound Transit Advances Design on Federal Way Maintenance Base

The Sound Transit board is poised to award a $350 million contract to advance the agency's next train maintenance base in Federal Way, a major component of future system expansion plans, to full design and pre-construction. Planned on a 70-acre site to the south of the 1 Line's current terminus in Downtown Federal Way, the new base is set to open by 2031 or 2032.The base will be specifically designed to handle the next generation of light rail v…