EVERETT — There’s a question about Sound Transit’s light rail line expansion from Lynnwood to Everett that Snohomish County Council chair, Megan Dunn, says people keep asking her. The question, Dunn, summarized, goes like this, “The question I get the most is, ‘why don’t we just go up the spine, up I-5 and go straight up (from Lynnwood) because it would be shorter and potentially cheaper?””
Dunn registered this question during a briefing with Sound Transit’s Everett Link Extension (EVLE) officials during the latest Snohomish County Council meeting. The question bears consideration as Sound Transit re-evaluates promises made to voters in 2016, when ST3 passed for a $54 billion price tag to complete light rail to downtown Everett, downtown Redmond, downtown Tacoma, West Seattle and Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood…