The first thing that struck us about the 3.15-mile, $1.6 billion project that is the University Link light rail line is that it will have half of the projected ridership of the 16-mile Central Link line. Kinda makes us think they should have started with the U District - Capitol Hill part first. As it is, the Central Link goes online in 2009, University Link in 2016.
We also marveled at how full the room was, for an open house on the design of the Capitol Hill station. (60% of a design is a process benchmark, meaning "over halfway there" in terms of public input and official review.) The weather was nice last night, too. No reason to be inside, even if David Hewitt of Hewitt Architects was doing a great job of PowerPoint stand-up ("Where’s the reverse?").
A Sound Transit spokesperson uncomfortable with public speaking had quavered her way through a presentation on construction mitigation: that’s what the vinyl "scenes" on boarded-up windows...
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