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Sound Transit's streetcar in Downtown Tacoma. Work on Tacoma's Hilltop streetcar extension continues, but further extensions are shelved until Sound Transit grapples with Covid-related budget impacts. (Doug Trumm)

Transit Agencies Ask Feds for $36 Billion to Weather Covid Recession and Keep Projects...

Sound Transit hopes doubling federal funding for Lynnwood Link and Federal Way Link could right their storm-tossed financial ship. Joining 25 other transit agencies from...

Sound Transit Prepares to Unfreeze Dozens of Halted Projects

More than two dozen Sound Transit projects are stalled out, which is the result of an aggressive conservative fiscal approach that the agency took...

Sound Transit Capital Program Realignment Process Slowed Down to Mid-2021

The Sound Transit Board of Directors are punting on a realignment program of capital expansion projects for at least a year, allowing current projects...

Sound Transit Boardmembers Still Jockeying to Set ST3 Realignment Criteria

With inevitable fallout from the pandemic, Sound Transit has pushed ahead with a program realignment process for voter-approved Sound Transit 3 projects. In a...
Light rail tracks near a Bellevue parking garage. Sound Transit's expansion timelines are under financial stress due to the Covid recession. (Photo by Stephen Fesler)

Sound Transit Grapples with Recession and Transit Expansion Rebalancing

The double-whammy of a global pandemic and parallel recession has taken a toll on Sound Transit finances. Agency staff have warned that a sustained...
An 2019 rendering shows Portland Avenue station in Tacoma. (Sound Transit)

Sound Transit Releases New Batch of Tacoma Dome Link Designs

Sound Transit is working on the Tacoma Dome Link Extension (TDLE) program--a four-station light rail extension south of central Federal Way--to determine a preferred...
A hole next to a water feature at Jackson Park Golf Course. (Courtesy of Premier GC)

Let’s Tee Off for Housing

Seattle can house 35,000 people on Jackson Park Golf Course by building on 60 acres of fairway and converting the remaining 100 forested acres...

Puget Sound Transit Agencies Are Bringing Back Fares and Adding Service

Puget Sound transit agencies are beginning to restore service and fare payment is returning on some services. Pierce Transit and Sound Transit have released...