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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Transportation Council Approves Rail Planning to Ballard

Posted by Dominic Holden on Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 3:08 PM

Ben Schiendelman reports at Seattle Transit Blog:

This morning, the Seattle City Council’s transportation committee, led by Councilmember Rasmussen, lifted the proviso on rail funding for Ballard I posted about a month ago.

This means that the City and Sound Transit can now develop an agreement to jointly fund an alternatives analysis of the corridor from downtown to Ballard—where the city studies buses and streetcars, and Sound Transit studies higher capacity transit modes, with their powers combined meeting the federal government’s requirements for transit corridor planning. Whether this means a streetcar is built, a subway, or both, it’s the necessary next step in getting reliable transit to Ballard.

Seattle Subway!

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Dominic, you are awesome, as usual. :)

Posted by Ben Schiendelman on July 25, 2012 at 3:19 PM

What about all those people working at Centran for the past year on the monorail to Ballard? http://www.centran.org/

Posted by iBear

on July 25, 2012 at 3:32 PM

@2, Seattle Subway had eight people show up on a weekday morning to urge the Transportation Committee to lift the proviso. Centran had none. Seattle Subway is actually doing the groundwork and outreach necessary to get real high quality transit to all our neighborhoods whereas Centran hasn't done anything but put out a press release a few months ago.

Sorry, but the monorail is dead.

Posted by Matthew 'Anc' Johnson on July 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM

Ziplines ftw.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on July 25, 2012 at 4:02 PM

So using a streetcar rather than a subway for this line is still on the table? That sucks.

Posted by Free Lunch on July 25, 2012 at 7:01 PM

the short part of light rail u district to nothgate to add what, four stations and four miles? that is going to be 4 billion. the 2005 subway at 10.5 miles with many more stations was 2.2 billion. this included 15 years operating cost, too.

how deep a tunnel under ship canal? how much will a subway tunnel under the ship canal cost? will it be $4 billion just to get from westlake to ballard, or more like $6 billion? where is the tax base for this kind of cost?

Posted by questions for s.s. on July 25, 2012 at 8:31 PM