Construction crews excavate the downtown Bellevue tunnel 24 hours a day, six days a week. Could West Seattle be next?
Image: Sound Transit / Flickr
“Everyone wants fast transit [that’s] high quality and low impact. Just find three quarters of a billion dollars and sweet.… But Shoreline and Everett ain’t gonna pay. To get tunnels, [neighborhoods] need to pay for them.”
—Mark Hallenbeck, director, Washington State Transportation Center, UW
“On the equity and fairness scale, [a tunnel] would be the best outcome for this, as far as I’m concerned. Sound Transit has a tremendous effect as far as being a catalyst for needed development in the Delridge neighborhood.”
—Willard Brown, Delridge environmental activist, ST3 Stakeholder Advisory Group
“We would be setting ourselves up politically for a fight that would hurt transit riders—if [an unfunded tunnel] happens, it would likely cause delays for alignment or construction, which would impact the time the stations open.”
—Owen Pickford, executive director, The Urbanist
Published in the How Seattle Does Summer issue of Seattle Met.
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