A Sound Investment: The Voters Who OK'd the Creation of Sound Transit in 1996 Didn't Just Decide That the Puget Sound Region Needed More Transit

In this article, the author profiles Joni Earl’s career as the chief executive office of Seattle, Washington’s Sound Transit. Earl’s early career in the organization was fraught with difficulties as Sound Transit was constructing a light rail system that would be, as Earl found, $1.1 billion over budget and three years behind schedules. Upon some restructuring of the organization, Earl was able to better focus on the agency’s problems and began working to improve public sentiment about the system. In addition to the improved media profile, public opinion was bettered by the opening of the system’s Tacoma Link, a light rail line, in 2003. Also described is Sound Transit’s long haul, urban center to urban center two-way bus transit service, the ST Express. The agency hopes to pass a $18 billion ballot measure in 2007 to work on further projects.

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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1794668
• Authors:
  • Jandt, Fred
• Publication Date: 2007-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: pp 8-10, 12, 14-16
• Serial:
  • Mass Transit
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Cygnus Publishing, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0364-3484
  • Serial URL: http://www.masstransitmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Light rail transit; Railroad commuter service
• Identifier Terms: Sound Transit
• Geographic Terms: Puget Sound Region
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042990
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 1 2007 1:19PM