Seattle-Area Light Rail System Announces Agreement to Place Station at Airport

The source of Ron Sims' deepened confidence: a new deal between Sound Transit and the Port of Seattle, specifying a route light rail could take to the airport and integrating a rail station into the airport's recently revised expansion plans. Sound Transit still hasn't said how it wou...

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Published inKnight Ridder Tribune Business News p. 1
Main Author Quigg, David
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 16.01.2003
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Agreements
Airport expansion
Airports
Light rail transportation
Mass transit
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Summary:The source of Ron Sims' deepened confidence: a new deal between Sound Transit and the Port of Seattle, specifying a route light rail could take to the airport and integrating a rail station into the airport's recently revised expansion plans. Sound Transit still hasn't said how it would pay to extend Seattle-area light rail beyond a planned southern terminus just shy of the airport. Sims said there are several options, none of which require extra federal help. "Agreement in principle" is the technical name for the document signed Wednesday by Sound Transit executive director Joni Earl and port CEO Mic Dinsmore. The final two sentences of the agreement show that it is not the final word on a route for bringing light rail to the airport: