Sound Transit will host an open house this month to discuss the Tacoma Link Expansion Project.
Earlier this year, Sound Transit’s Board of Directors identified a potential Link light rail expansion alignment that would continue north from the existing Theater District Station to the Hilltop District via Stadium Way, North 1st Street, Division Street, and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. As part of the environmental review process, Sound Transit will evaluate the potential community and environmental impacts of the proposed alignment, stations, and expanded maintenance facility near the existing facility at East 25th and G streets.
The open house will be held on Tues., May 20, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., at Allen AME Church, located at 1223 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, in Tacoma. Visitors will learn more about the newly identified alignment, comment on potential station locations, review maintenance facility site options, discuss key design factors, discuss types of potential environmental impacts to be evaluated, and hear about next steps for the Tacoma Link Expansion Project.
More information is available online here.
To read the Tacoma Daily Index’s complete and comprehensive coverage of Tacoma Link light rail expansion plans, click on the following links:
- City Hall News: Link light rail expansion, Hilltop development update and Human Rights Commission (Tacoma Daily Index, January 24, 2014)
- Tacoma Link light rail open house Jan. 9 (Tacoma Daily Index, Dec. 31, 2013)
- 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)
