West Seattle light rail: Big week ahead as planning moves toward ‘preferred alternative’

Two events are ahead this week as the process of planning Sound Transit West Seattle (and Ballard) light rail gets back into high gear: On Wednesday (September 5th), the Stakeholder Advisory Group meets for the first time in more than a month, and is expected to get technical-evaluation information that’s long been clamored for. That meeting is set for 5-8 pm at Sound Transit’s board room downtown (401 S. Jackson) – no agenda yet but watch for it here. Then next Saturday (September 8th) is your chance to jump in deeper, at the next “neighborhood forum,” set for 9-11:30 am at the Seattle Lutheran High School gym (4100 SW Genesee). How that’ll unfold is explained here. Feedback from the forum goes to the stakeholder group before its recommends at month’s end what should move to the third and final level of review

Again September 4, 2018 (11:55 am)

How should we be at the Avalon remix highway blender meeting at the senior center and the screw you further with a train in your front door meeting downtown on the same date, overlapping time, multiple locations? Seriously? Can no one working for the city read a calendar?

WSB September 4, 2018 (12:08 pm)

Neither of those meetings was scheduled by “the city.” Sound Transit is not a city agency. And the Southwest District Council is an independent organization which has long met on first Wednesdays. Anyway, there’s no public comment at the light-rail stakeholder groups, so the most important one to be at, if you can, is the Saturday morning forum. – TR

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