Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Last month, just as the regional public agency celebrated the launch of the Link connection across Lake Washington, the Sound Transit board floated three different scenarios to help the agency take on its $35 billion shortfall over the next two decades. Each one indefinitely defers building light rail all the way to Ballard, stopping either at Seattle Center or Smith Cove.

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