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Is Sound Transit Abandoning the Lofty Goals of the Enterprise Initiative? (www.theurbanist.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CombatWombat@feddit.online to c/seattle

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Sound Transit's lofty Enterprise Initiative was aimed at getting ballooning budgets under control without cutting or delaying planned light rail projects. However, that may have been an overly ambitious goal, since the agency did have to resort to pulling those levers last month.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Every outlet covering this is despondent because Ballard Link is fully dead, and yet everyone at Sound Transit is acting like nothing's changed and there is no problem and I cannot make heads or tails of the discrepancy:

"The board action to update the system plan did not kill or cancel or delete or defer or postpone Ballard project," Constantine said. "To the contrary, it kept Ballard on schedule with an investment of $18.1 billion, and that plan that the board adopted gives us the framework and the guidance and the tools needed to roll up our sleeves and to work on solving this puzzle of that money. $300 million was set aside specifically for completing the full design process from the Seattle Center to Market Street, which means that over the next several years that part of the project will proceed identifying cost savings and choices that can be made and innovations that can be implemented."