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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Back on Track: Sound Transit's Fight to Save Light Rail

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

Wodnik, Bob

Paperback

Transportation GeneralGeneral Political ScienceRegional: Pacific Northwest

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0874223695
ISBN13: 9780874223699
Publisher: Washington St Univ Pr
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Observing its busy stations today, it is difficult to picture Seattle and Puget Sound without Sound Transit. Or to imagine how close the transportation agency came to folding. Back on Track reveals its astonishing survival story. After the city took the last streetcar out of service in 1941, Seattle subsisted for decades without a rail system, and it was choking on congestion. So for many, it was a joyous day in November 1996 when voters in urban areas of King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties approved a ten-year, $3.9 billion plan to bring mass transit to Puget Sound. But for the 23 employees of the fledgling Sound Transit, the celebration was short-lived. When light rail plan estimates came in a billion dollars over budget and extended the project three years, the agency faced a torrent of angry taxpayers and public ridicule. News headlines bristled about Unsound Transit, and whether the organization was on the midnight train to nowhere. Prominent politicians and citizens joined the battle. One by one, Sound Transit's administrators resigned.

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