Sound Transit will host an open house in January to continue its discussion of expansion plans for Tacoma’s Link light rail.
In May, Sound Transit Board of Directors identified the North Downtown Central Corridor (Hilltop via the Stadium District) as the preferred corridor for the potential expansion of Tacoma Link light rail. Sound Transit, in cooperation with the City of Tacoma and Pierce Transit, is now beginning the next phase of the project to further define and evaluate route alignments in the corridor.
An open house will be held on Thurs., Jan. 9, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Stadium High School, Auxiliary Gym, 111 N. ‘E’ St., in Tacoma. Visitors will have an opportunity to learn how specific route alignments respond to evaluation criteria; weigh in on which alignments should be studied for further environmental review; and hear about next steps for the Tacoma Link Expansion Project. Individuals interested in the issue are encouraged to take an online survey to provide feedback on specific route alignments at soundtransit.org/tacomalinkexpansion.
To read the Tacoma Daily Index‘s complete and comprehensive coverage of Tacoma Link light rail expansion plans, click on the following links:
- Sound Transit approves $1.1B budget (Tacoma Daily Index, Dec. 20, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to discuss Link light rail expansion, local economic report (Tacoma Daily Index, Dec. 9, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to discuss charter review, Link light rail expansion (Tacoma Daily Index, Nov. 8, 2013)
- Sound Transit Board selects corridor for potential Tacoma Link expansion (Tacoma Daily Index, May 23, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to continue Link light rail expansion discussion (Tacoma Daily Index, April 12, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to discuss community colleges, Link light rail (Tacoma Daily Index, Feb. 22, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to discuss Link light rail, economic development (Tacoma Daily Index, Feb. 8, 2013)
- Learn more about Tacoma Link light rail expansion (Tacoma Daily Index, Feb. 1, 2013)
- Tacoma City Council to discuss Tacoma Link expansion, UWT Prairie Line Trail (Tacoma Daily Index, Jan. 18, 2013)
- Tacoma LINK light rail expansion open house Dec. 5 (Tacoma Daily Index, Nov. 26, 2012)
- Puget Sound Regional Council: Pierce Transit vanpools, Tacoma LINK light rail expansion could receive $481K (Tacoma Daily Index, Nov. 9, 2012)
- Share your ideas for Link light rail expansion in Tacoma (Tacoma Daily Index, Aug. 20, 2012)
- Tacoma City Council discusses Link light rail expansion Tuesday (Tacoma Daily Index, March 28, 2011)
- Citizens initiative aims to build Tacoma streetcar (Tacoma Daily Index, Feb. 22, 2010)
- Sound Transit seeks public input on regional transportation expansion plan (Tacoma Daily Index, April 28, 2008)
- Sound Transit board adopts plan for regional light rail expansions (Tacoma Daily Index, May 25, 2007)
- City examines Sound Transit 2 projects (Tacoma Daily Index, Jan. 19, 2006)
- Tacoma, Sound Transit plan transportation future (Tacoma Daily Index, Sept. 16, 2005)
- Sound Transit Board approves updated Long Range Plan (Tacoma Daily Index, July 12, 2005)