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To be more precise on the meetup on Thursday, it will be at the Old Stove Gardens location in Ballard

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If you’re not able to make the meetup, shirts and yard signs are available at Smål Market with a $15 donation

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Board of Directors Meeting | Sound Transit

3. Speaking of the next Sound Transit board meeting, we’d love to see you there on 8/27 at 1:30pm. If you can’t commit to that, you can also provide public comment virtually via Zoom. And if you can’t make it live at all, you can always email public comment to meetingcomments@soundtransit.org

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August 27, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | The Board establishes policies and gives direction and oversight.

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Prioritize Ballard to Westlake and Provide a Status Quo Timeline

2. We’re calling on Sound Transit to provide increased transparency and accountability, as well as implement some short and long-term solutions to improve transit in Ballard. It includes specific calls for more accountability, transparency, and stopgaps that ST can provide to the community

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We have a critical week ahead in the fight to save Sound Transit 3—and the Sound Transit Board needs to hear from you. On Thursday, May 28, the Sound Transit Board of Directors will vote on a proposa...

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 14/08/2026

Three things you can do to help Save Ballard Rail: 1. We’ll be meeting at Old Stove Brewing this Thursday, August 20th at 7pm. We are stronger together! This is a more casual meetup, so if you’re looking to meet neighbors and get a little more involved in transit advocacy, this is the place for you

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Already two more delays LESS THAN THREE MONTHS after the realignment vote in May. Why wasn't this disclosed during the Enterprise Initiative?

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 13/08/2026

This should be a scandal. Sound Transit told everyone we had to agree to put ST3 into a blender and massively delay projects in part to get West Seattle built by 2032. We argued instead ST should work to lower construction costs and get new $$ before delaying voter-approved projects. Now this?!

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Failing that, we need to revisit every assumption to begin service far sooner than 2042. Rail to Ballard within our lifetimes is still within reach with the right approach.

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Answering these questions will allow Sound Transit to build momentum and restore trust with riders anxiously awaiting expansion. This agency’s goal must be delivering on promises made to voters, including service to NW Market Street in Ballard by 2035.

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- Why would we ever count on third party or private sector funding, as the agency has hinted at? - Every month of delay costs tens of millions of “year-of-expenditure dollars” so what are the concrete steps to successfully achieve these financial levers and cost-saving mechanisms long before 2030?

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- What are Sound Transit’s federal funding assumptions for each ST3 project? -How exactly can the budget gap be closed by 2033? How much additional cash flow is expected from each of the financial levers individually, and how much savings is expected from each cost-saving mechanism?

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ST needs to publicly and immediately adress the following: - Given that the date to get to Seattle Center has slipped 3 years to 2042 SINCE THE REALIGNMENT 2 MONTHS AGO, have other ST3 projects also been silently delayed in that time? - What exactly are the funding gaps?

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Op-Ed: Sound Transit Gave Us a Ballard Date. Here’s How To Accelerate It.

Check out our latest op-ed for the Urbanist! TLDR: - Getting to Ballard "around" 2060 is unacceptable, but we're glad ST is finally acknowledging how dire the situation is - Their plan to get to 2042 is too vague - 2042 is still not good enough, the goal needs to be 2035 as originally promised

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Sound Transit recently revealed light rail won't reach Ballard until "around 2060" without further intervention. Seattle Subway lays out a path to greatly accelerate this delivery date, which they cal...

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They also need to reexamine the design of this system, it's too expensive.

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Together, we will fight tooth and nail for Ballard to open even earlier than 2042.

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If they achieve their desired federal funding, if they find cost savings proportional to what they found for West Seattle, if they find significant new revenue, and if they gain new debt authority, then service to Ballard may start as soon as 2042. Again, only if everything goes perfectly.

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Next steps on the Ballard Link Extension | Sound Transit

Sound Transit has finally posted a date to reach Ballard. Under current assumptions, it would be “around 2060”. Sound Transit has a concept of a plan to do better that relies on a lot of things going perfectly.

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Opening the full extension all the way to Market Street is possible by 2042. Here’s what it will take.

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 31/07/2026

It seems more like the concern is that there will be extra scrutiny, and ST is just deflecting blame and refusing any sort of accountability. We have no reason to trust that we'll even be in a place to find savings in 6-7 years (which btw puts us pretty close to the original planned delivery date)

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 31/07/2026

Right now there is no construction timeline because there is no date (and implicitly ST already said it's after 2052 since that's when they extended the planning to in the realignment). How is that less "dramatically different" than a specific date?

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 29/07/2026

Housing and transit go hand-in-hand. Excellent work by @cmeddielin.bsky.social to close this loophole that has been continually exploited by NIMBYs to prevent much needed housing in Seattle.

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 28/07/2026

The meeting today is at 2:00pm. You can still send in comments! And you can attend in-person at council chambers or virtually to provide public comment 🗣️. Details here: seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 23/06/2026

Interesting thought! This would be another proposal: branch off from SODO and build new, much needed stations in Georgetown and South Park and end at the airport. One downside of branching at Judkins would be cutting off the stadiums from their closest light rail while fixing the at-grade section

A depiction of part of Seattle Subway's vision map. The relevant part to the post is the pink line which runs north-south and separates from the current 1 line at SODO, goes through Georgetown and South Park, and rejoins at Tukwila International Blvd before ending at SeaTac Airport. This would free up Sound Transit to elevate the existing Ranier Valley segment without severing the spine.

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Just some absolute word salad here from CEO Constantine. He has been leading this process in various roles as King County Exec, ST Board Chair, and now CEO since 2009!

"It is holistic. It’s creative. It’s iterative,” Constantine said. “We’re talking about everything across the agency — operations and maintenance and finance — considering everything we are doing in order that we might be able to better deliver and better serve from an internal perspective, process requires ST leadership and staff to bring all of our costs together and really collaborate across various interlocking spheres to inform each other and deliver the best data and information to the board to inform board decisions. Instead of throwing on the brakes, instead of paralysis or simply delaying projects and diminishing scope, as we did previously, we are going to look at this program holistically and bring the board information on all of our work from across all of our enterprise.”

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Maybe this time is different, but ST has a terrible track record of implementing creative ideas. Producing the date estimate for Ballard should be simple, as any competent agency would already have the estimate, but we probably won't get it and the RFI till the last possible second.

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Well one other thing they tried was the 75 year bond bill, but state legislators told ST to their face (not Dow though because he didn't show up to the community meeting) that it didn't pass because ST didn't do their homework.

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 04/06/2026

Great story here from The Urbanist. Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine is telling everyone to trust him despite the empty promises. The enterprise initiative was supposed to use tools other than cutting and delaying, but that's what they did yet again.

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One option is to build the pink line south as part of an ST4 package, and then elevate the 1 Line through Rainier Valley

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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The decision last week from the Sound Transit board to leave Ballard Light Rail extension unfunded is downright outrageous. So make your voices heard! Sound Transit board needs to feel that pressure every single day until Ballard is funded.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 30/05/2026

There's been a lot of discussion about bringing transit projects to 100% design. The Center City Connector has been at 100% design for nearly ten years. It was almost fully funded, with a $75 million federal funding agreement. Pre-construction work had even begun. It is now considered "dead."

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Ballard FC @goballardfc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

At least you can take the light rail back to Bellevue now 😉 #BallardFC | #UpTheBridges

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Another shot across the bow for Sound Transit. They need to stop alienating voters and legislators

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To the Mayor's credit, she voted for the Ballard starter line amendment amongst the other important ones. Now we need her to lead the way for Ballard rail like she did for Graham St.

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For sure, looking forward to new revenue sources too. ESZs are not a silver bullet by any means, so ST better start working with state/federal legislative partners (which they have done a terrible job at apparently)

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As a result, momentum is building for board reform so we can end the cycles of crises and cuts.

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That being said, a few key amendments did pass: - We will get a date for Ballard under the current funding by August 1st - The board will issue an RFI (so they can study creative solutions like automated light rail) - Graham St station is now funded

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They still have no concrete plan to get to Ballard. They rejected the Ballard starter line amendment with the board chair and others baselessly fearmongering about it threatening the success of all the other extensions.

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 28/05/2026

The board should not have passed the resolution. The enterprise initiative has been a rushed, flawed process and now the 4th iteration of the board cutting projects in the face of "unforeseen" circumstances. Sound Transit is failing fundamental tasks of planning, communication, and transparency. 🧵

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The lack of one is. Given the low level of design, it does make you wonder how accurate the budgets and timelines are. Sound Transit needs to be transparent and show its work to rebuild trust if they want us to believe Ballard is not cancelled

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Seattle Subway @seattlesubway.org · 28/05/2026

Yes! Amendments 2 and 11 call for a Request for Information (RFI) that the automated light rail proposal could be submitted to. Even if these amendments pass though, we need to push them to do their due diligence on ideas that come in through the RFI

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Councilmember Strauss: “We need you to show up to Thursday’s Sound Transit Board of Directors Meeting and tell Sound Transit that’s unacceptable. It’s time for them to keep their promises. It’s time for them to build Ballard Light Rail.”

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Mayor Wilson: “I’m going to make sure we get it across the finish line. It’s critical we deliver light rail to Ballard like voters were promised.”

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Board of Directors Meeting | Sound Transit

If you want to ride a train to Ballard in your lifetime, make your voice heard at the Sound Transit Board meeting tomorrow, May 28th. Public comment starts at 1:30 (sign-up up early). If you can't make it in person, you can also call in to comment virtually.

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May 28, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | The Board establishes policies and gives direction and oversight.

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