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Seattle Light Rail Links

Seattle Light Rail was approved by voters in 1996, and has been challenged as a bad investment ever since. The 14 mile Initial Segment, budgeted at US$2.5 billion, went into construction in November 2003. Here are some selected web links provided by Public Interest Transportation Forum:

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Sound Transit, the public agency building light rail. The light rail is called "Link." The agency's official name is Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (RTA).

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Website for the Sound Transit Expert Review Panel looking at the $20 billion plan for expansion of the system.

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A map of the planned light rail route in Seattle.

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Atlas from City of Seattle showing station area land use.

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Comprehensive agreement negotiated between Sound Transit and University of Washington regarding light rail station construction on campus.

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Metro, the existing bus system serving the Seattle area. Metro is operated by King County Department of Transportation.  Metro will be the operator of Central Link Light Rail.

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Public Interest Transportation Forum (PITF), an independent web site maintained by transportation professionals who are critical of the light rail plan.  This page is part of PITF.

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Print media that cover the development of light rail (search on "light rail" or "Sound Transit")

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Seattle Times

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Puget Sound Business Journal

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Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

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Seattle Weekly

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Everett Herald

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Tacoma News Tribune

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