Seattle Times: Get ready, Seattle: You're about to be a light-rail town
From Seattle Times:
At last, Seattle is about to become a light-rail town. On Saturday, the first passengers will board the Sound Transit trains from Westlake Center through Rainier Valley to Tukwila — putting behind them nearly a century of failed proposals to build a big transit system through Seattle. The initial $2.3 billion, 14-mile segment took five years to build and was filled with engineering challenges and political suspense.
The project features a unique deep station within the soft soils of Beacon Hill, and the nation's only tunnel where buses and trains share the same stations — downtown. Managers coped with toxic soil, sinkholes, street protests seeking more jobs for African Americans and a couple of minor train-car collisions.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955 Get The Facts
“Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods...Together the unifying forces of our communication and transportation systems are dynamic elements in the very name we bear — United States. Without them, we would be a mere alliance of many separate parts.”
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R.T. Rybak
Mayor, Minneapolis
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