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The primary "yes" campaign, Mass Transit Now, was originally established to support Sound Transit 2 in 2008, [63] and was revived for Sound Transit 3. Using funding from local corporations and labor unions, it raised $3.41 million by late October and attracted the support of politicians and political activists. [ 64 ]
In the 2021 realignment of the Sound Transit 3 program, the openings for the Stride lines was revised to 2026 and 2027, with park-and-ride projects delayed further to 2034 and 2044. [53] Sound Transit adopted the final alignments and stations for the Stride lines in September 2021, along with the site of the proposed bus base. [51]
The fleet is composed of 175 low-floor light rail vehicles for the 1 and 2 Lines; 8 streetcars for the T Line; 78 bilevel cars and 14 locomotives for Sounder; and 319 buses for Sound Transit Express. [3] The entire Link and Sound Transit Express fleet is considered accessible, with level boarding or ramps and lifts.
The 3 Line (colored magenta) is a future light rail line in the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington, to be part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system. It is planned to connect Everett and Snohomish County to Downtown Seattle and West Seattle .
Constantine has previously served as the board chair, most notably when the agency successfully had its Sound Transit 3 ballot measure approved by voters in 2015.
Sound Transit instead completed environmental reviews and selected a preferred alignment to Downtown Redmond, indefinitely deferring the final segment of East Link until a later date. [3] The Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, passed in 2016, includes $1.1 billion in funding for the two stations in Downtown Redmond, which were planned by 2024. [ 4 ]
The project, once scheduled to open in 2024, will now open in 2025.
Sound Transit 3 also funded a 7.8-mile (12.6 km) extension of the S Line from Lakewood to new stations at Tillicum and DuPont. [211] The extension would the existing Point Defiance Bypass constructed by Sound Transit, with a second track added in some sections, [ 212 ] and generally follow the Interstate 5 corridor near Joint Base Lewis–McChord .