$54 Billion dollars for this latest 'light' rail boondoggle. Who's enriching themselves there? The only thing light in this budget is how 'light' it will leave everyone's wallet. Sound Transit or Regional Transit Authority promised the whole thing would be completed by 2006. "What happened?"  Maybe some one should write a book.
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They have busses right now.They could've added a couple lanes north and south along I-5 for busses only. There's your light rail...on rubber. It would have been done by now if they'd been realistic. Those busses  would have the added benefit of being able to leave the 'track' and use existing roads. Try and get a train, even a 'light train' to do that!  The Sounder trains going to Seattle from Everett were a Band-Aid and is 'very limited service' as they are 'leasing' the right of way from Burlington Northern Railroad. Its one of those 'see what we did' moments from Sound Transit, when in reality, they did nothing, except pay 'rent' to use someone else's rail.