Sound Transit’s nearly 1000-page West Seattle Link Extension Final Environmental Impact Statement was released September 20, 2024. It does not address most of the concerns raised by the commenters on 2022’s Draft EIS for the West Seattle Ballard Link Extension. They received almost 5,200 comments – from Tribes and Tribal organizations, government agencies, elected officials, businesses and business organizations, community and arts organizations, individual members of the public and regional transit experts.
As a result, several of these regional commenters have assembled an alternative Final EIS (EIS-C) that does address these concerns. It offers less destructive, lower carbon cost transit options and solutions for the concerns generated by Sound Transit’s $7 billion+, 4-mile light rail stub and was presented to Chairman Dow Constantine and the Sound Transit Board of Directors on September 26, 2024. Its conclusion calls for the No Build Alternative option and will inform SODO-West Seattle light rail discussions going forward.
Read the Alternative EIS https://rethinkthelink.org/home/our-alternative-final-environmental-impact-statement-eis-c