To try to salvage light rail service to Ballard, Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss has called for a radical and sudden change: Build first from Ballard to Westlake, instead of starting with a new Sound Transit tunnel downtown.
While Strauss advocates for Ballard, fellow transit board members Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and King County Executive Girmay Zahilay issued their own 11th-hour amendments Wednesday, to move the endangered Graham Street Station into the “affordable” category, instead of scrapping that train stop in South Seattle.