Sound Transit board to pick preferred light rail route to Kent, Federal Way
Published 3:16 pm Friday, July 17, 2015
The Sound Transit’s Board of Directors on Thursday, July 23 will take public comments and is expected to identify a preferred alternative for the Federal Way Link Extension project that will expand light rail service to Kent’s West Hill.
Kent and other cities prefer an Interstate 5 route. Other groups prefer the route be built along Highway 99, aka Pacific Highway South.
Sound Transit will then advance design of the preferred alternative and refine the environmental impact analysis. These findings will be published in the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) expected in late 2016. Service to Kent/Des Moines is expected to open in 2023 as the agency extends light rail from Angle Lake in SeaTac. The Angle Lake extension from Sea-Tac Airport is scheduled to open next year.
The Sound Transit Board of Directors will consider the findings in the FEIS and select a project to build.
The board meets from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Ruth Fisher Board Room, Union Station, 401 S. Jackson St., in Seattle.
You can also watch the Sound Transit Board meetings live at: soundtransit.org/boardlive.
Contact Tralayne Myers, Community outreach specialist, at 206-398-5014 or tralayne.myers@soundtransit.org with any questions or comments about the project.
