Back on Track: Sound Transit's Fight to Save Light Rail

Observing its busy stations today, it is difficult to imagine how close Sound Transit came to folding....
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Author: Bob Wodnik
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Back on Track: Sound Transit's Fight to Save Light Rail by Wodnik, Bob

Back on Track: Sound Transit's Fight to Save Light Rail

$60.65

Back on Track: Sound Transit's Fight to Save Light Rail

$60.65
Author: Bob Wodnik
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Observing its busy stations today, it is difficult to imagine how close Sound Transit came to folding. By 1996 much of Puget Sound was choking on congestion, so it was a joyous day for many when voters in three counties approved a ten-year, $3.9 billion mass transit plan. But the agency's light rail estimates came in a billion dollars over budget and extended the project three years. A torrent of angry opposition followed. One by one, administrators resigned.

Then Joni Earl stepped in. The new executive director rallied team members, secured a crucial $500 million federal grant, publicly confronted critics, and presented a realistic revised budget. She and her team navigated lawsuits, complex demands made by impacted locations, and expanding expectations of outlying communities.

Earl, with support from Link executive director Ahmad Fazel and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels, delivered Sound Transit's promised light rail system in July 2009. A resounding success, its trains and buses annu

Author: Bob Wodnik
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780874223699

About the Author
Wodnik, Bob: - Bob Wodnik served as Sound Transit's senior communications specialist from 1999 to 2017. He has been a reporter and columnist for the "Everett Herald" and a reporter for the "Aberdeen Daily World." WSU Press published his first book, "Captured Honor: POW Survival in the Philippines and Japan," in 2003.

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