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| Booth at summer fair Photo courtesy Sound Transit |
From Sound Transit
Lynnwood Link Extension Summer 2014 Outreach Overview
Great conversations at summer fairs, festivals and community drop-in sessions
The Lynnwood Link outreach team enjoyed talking with you at fairs, festivals and community drop-in sessions this summer! Whether at Tour de Terrace, Celebrate Shoreline, Edmonds Market, Lynnwood Farmers Market or a library near you, we had a chance to talk about the latest designs, review the project schedule, answer project related questions and discuss current service. We talked with approximately 1,000 residents and event attendees over the summer.
What are we hearing?
- Excitement about project development and future service
- Interest in the design details of potential stations
- Questions about property impacts and the schedule
Many of the questions we received this summer were about travel times once the Lynnwood Link Extension is completed. Several people mentioned that they look forward to traveling to downtown Seattle and SeaTac Airport on Link light rail - so how long would it take?
- Estimated travel time between Lynnwood Transit Center and downtown Seattle: about 30 minutes!
- Estimated travel time between Lynnwood Transit Center and SeaTac Airport: about 1 hour!
Neighborhood and residential field work complete
Over the last six months you may have seen trucks drilling for soil testing, noticed noise monitoring equipment in a neighbor's yard, watched vibration testing on your street or observed survey crews map out the neighborhood from the public right of way and on private property with permission from property owners. Now that this stage of field research is complete, the data we collected is being used to refine designs, complete the environmental review process and publish the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
Here is a snapshot of the work completed:
- 90 soil testing and drilling locations
- 95 residential properties were accessed for survey work
- 11 noise/vibration testing locations
- 400 flyers distributed for soil and vibration testing
- 99 phone calls to property owners in advance of field work
For more information about the Lynnwood Link Extension project, contact Roger Iwata, 206-689-4904.
You can also visit the Lynnwood Link Extension web page.
Gee ST! 1000 people spoke with your staff in 5 cities? You gave out 400 flyers? Wow, we are just so impressed! Let's see..... How many people in associated neighborhoods will be affectedand displaced in 5 cities by Lynnwood Link? Maybe 10-20 thousand? Um..... Maybe you are not getting an accurate picture? Do you have any idea how confused, depressed and devastated these neighborhoods are? These are 100% Single-family neighborhoods! These are people who have invested their life savings in their homes and yards and are raising their families here. And most of all, these are people who have no idea what is about to befall them. Sure, City staff are "excited." Sure some rich people and hipsters are "excited." But if you ask the people in neighborhoods directly affected if they are excited about having wholesale R-48 and R-18 rezones legislated, you need to scratch just a teeny bit deeper. Sound Transit, get real!
ReplyDeleteResidents also have a responsibility to be aware of what is happening around them instead of just living in a bubble. There has been so much press coverage of Sound Transit's LINK Light Rail as well as signs in the immediate neighborhoods that if someone is NOT aware of it, then it is their own fault.
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