Sound Transit's plans for expanding light rail in the south Puget Sound in Tacoma became more public recently at an open house at Evergreen State College.
Six tunnel segments on a single light rail extension project offered plenty of opportunity for Sound Transit to run amiss of target dates, costs and plans.
Confronting a spaghetti bowl of roads in and out of SeaTac International Airport, south of Seattle, owner Sound Transit opted for its first-ever turnkey design-build contract to better integrate civil, structural, station and system components of a new light-rail system extension that will serve the airport.
When he was Federal Transit Administration chief, Peter M. Rogoff in 2009 OK’d $813 million in federal grants to Seattle-area rail agency Sound Transit to boost construction of a regional light-rail line.