(SEATTLE) Sound Transit has announced there will be more delays as it works to extend its network of light rail from 26 to 62 miles.
Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm made a video statement yesterday, after the agency’s expansion committee said opening the Hilltop extension on the T-line is now delayed beyond its projected opening early next year. In the video, Timm says the opening, originally scheduled for first quarter 2023, will now happen much later in the year.
She blames issues with construction and the supply chain.
Timm also doesn’t have an opening date for Federal Way, after lose soil was discovered. She says they’re working with the contractor to resolve the issue.
And we already know service from Seattle to the Eastside has been pushed back to Spring of 2025, but yesterday, the expansion committee said it will ask the full board in January for a much earlier opening of the stretch between Bellevue and Redmond.
The extension to Lynnwood will remain almost on time for mid-to-late 2024, after its opening bumps up a little because everything else is getting delayed.