Soaring land and construction costs push light-rail line to Federal Way over $2.5 billion
The $2.09 billion cost estimate has jumped by $460 million to $2.55 billion, executives reported at a board meeting Thursday. That’s a 22 percent spike.
- Seattle’s transportation department struggles with rising costs, unkept promises
- Sound Transit light-rail riders frustrated Monday morning by failed UW Station escalators
- Why the Ballard Bridge and its steel neighbors need cool-water baths in the summertime
- Travel delays expected as I-5 resurfacing work in Seattle continues
- Fireworks planted on equipment used in controversial Seattle road project
- Three dead, three seriously hurt in broadside collision near Roy
- King County Metro named nation’s top public transportation agency
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Bellevue tries a new method to avoid controversy over bike lanes
For a year, planners will measure impacts from the bike lanes, including vehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, parking and the number of bicycle trips. Then the city will decide whether the lanes should be permanent.
