Seattle to help Sound Transit with multi-billion-dollar budget gap

Transportation advocates are sending a clear message to Sound Transit in the face of the agency’s multibillion-dollar budget shortfall: build the trains we were promised.

“The message from voters, riders, and the public is clear,” said Kirk Hovenkotter, Executive Director of the Transportation Choices Coalition. “Build the damn trains.”

It comes days after Sound Transit announced it was billions of dollars short to deliver on voter-approved expansion plans, without cost-saving interventions…

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