T4.5 Sound Transit in Thurston County
Work with State Legislators and Governor’s Office to identify opportunities and funding to expand Sound Transit to Thurston County.
The Washington Policy Center used Sound Transit’s estimates for the upcoming Lynwood extension for the most recent of several policy pieces by Todd Myers using Sound Transit’s estimates to demonstrate that adding light rail is an extremely expensive way to reduce transportation emissions (even in a much more densely populated area than would be served here).
(Sound Transit’s estimated reductions would be larger, except that they expect that a great deal of the ridership will consist of people who would be riding buses if they weren’t riding the new light rail.)