VIDEO: What West Seattle light-rail advisory group members said at final meeting

(Sound Transit rendering, potential routing at Genesee trying east towards Avalon)

The Neighborhood Advisory Group convened by Sound Transit for the most-recent planning section of West Seattle mild rail has met for the ultimate time. The assembly this previous week was for suggestions from the group members, on their most well-liked routing and station places in addition to on the potential cost-saving concepts ST proposed at their earlier assembly. Right here’s the recording:

Because the assembly was about suggestions, not presentation of proposals, there wasn’t a lot to the slide deck, however you may see that right here. Generally, relating to routing and station places, most members spoke in favor of as a lot tunneling as potential, significantly into The Junction. For the Delridge station location, suggestions was extra combined, together with just a few requires reviving the beforehand discarded choice nicknamed the “purple line” (which might tunnel via Pigeon Level).

Relating to the cost-saving concepts – the thought of saving cash by shifting the Fauntleroy elevated station choice east, avoiding the newly constructed 4754 Fauntleroy Approach SW advanced, didn’t get a lot traction, principally as a result of many group members didn’t just like the elevated Fauntleroy choice no matter the place it will be constructed. The opposite large cost-saving concept was probably dropping the Avalon station. A number of reiterated that eradicating a station ought to solely be an choice if West Seattle had one thing to achieve from doing it – like “sensible design,” one group member urged.

WHAT’S NEXT: The ST board members who comprise the System Growth Committee have a workshop targeted on the West Seattle/Ballard extensions 1-3:30 pm Friday (Might twentieth). Then in July, they and the complete board meet about confirming or modifying a “most well-liked various” earlier than going into the ultimate environmental-impact course of – the committee on July 14th, the complete board on July twenty eighth. The board’s last determination on routing and station places is predicted in what ST now describes as “late 2023.”