The Sound Transit Board also blew off the concerns of Seattle Subway and Transit Equity For All when they decided to torch $170M in funds (and 2 whole years) to study precisely how terrible an idea it will be to eliminate useful stations in place of putting a transit stop on the doorstep of the city jail and a BMW dealership instead of in the middle of the CID. And also rob midtown (First Hill) of their connecting station.
At the monthly meeting, the board also approved $122 million in additional studies for the Ballard Link extension, which some transit advocates, including advocacy group Seattle Subway, argued were of dubious value and should be rejected.
I remember some controversy but I don’t remember what it was about. Wasn’t Chinatown not wanting them to ruin their neighborhood or was it some business decision?
Our light rail has too many stops, too slow max speed, it hasn’t done it’s job which should be to intice people to use it over their cars.
I was really hoping this would be a world class transit system.