Everett light rail options could get thinned this month
EVERETT — Station and track options for light rail between Lynnwood and Everett could get pared after Sound Transit board meetings this month.
On Thursday, the system expansion committee is set to consider recommending further study for alternatives for six stations, a provisional station and the Operations and Maintenance Facility North. The full Sound Transit board is expected to approve which stations advance to a draft environmental impact statement at an upcoming meeting
As the agency moves through the planning process, it needs to evaluate several options. There’s no “magic number” for how many to include, but alternatives should have grounded rationale for being in the draft environmental impact statement, acting deputy executive director Chelsea Levy told the Everett Link Extension Elected Leadership Group in April.
Sound Transit staff and officials are planning for the voter-approved expansion of Link light rail 16 miles from the Lynnwood Transit Center (where the station is called Lynnwood City Center) to Everett Station. At this point, high-level conversations and debates about where stations and the track, aka the “alignment,” could go are funneling to committees then to the full Sound Transit board for decisions.
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