08-08-2017 Sound Transit Tacoma Dome Link ExtensionAugust 8, 2017
Federal Way City Council
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System expansion
Light Rail
116-mile regional system
37 new stations
Connecting Tacoma, to Everett, Redmond & Issaquah, Ballard & West Seattle
Daily ridership: 470,000-580,000 by 2040
Sounder south commuter rail
Track improvements, access improvements, 40% capacity increase
Extension to DuPont
ST Express bus
Bus Rapid Transit serving 21 cities, in the I-405, SR 522 & SR 518 corridors
Bus-on-Shoulder opportunities: I-5, I-405, SR 518, SR 167
Speed and reliability improvements
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Taxes Stay Local: Taxpayers in each of Sound Transit’s five subareas pay for projects and services that benefit the people who live in that subarea.
Subarea equity
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Sound Transit accounts for sources and uses of funds on the basis of sub-area equity. The Sound Transit district is divided into 5 geographic sub-areas.
Taxes stay local: taxpayers in each of Sound Transit’s subareas pay for projects and services that benefit the people who live in that subarea.
Appendix A of the Sound Transit 3 plan details the capital and operating expenses as well as project benefits of each subarea.
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FWLE/ TDLE corridor map
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FWLE/ TDLE corridor map
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FWLE/ TDLE corridor map
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ST3 Representative Project
No final project decisions have been made
Federal Way Transit Center to Tacoma Dome
Length: 9.7 miles
Stations: 4
Daily Project Riders: 27,000-37,000
Cost: $1.85 to $2.03 billion (2014$)
Operation and Maintenance Facility along corridor
Starting point for project development
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Start of Revenue Service
2030
December 2017: Consultant Procurement
January 2018: Partnering Agreement
Summer 2019: Identify preferred alternative
Tacoma Dome Link Extension Schedule
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Next steps
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Elected Leadership Group
Stakeholder
Group
Interagency Group
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Next Steps
Early and often coordination
4th Quarter:
Federal Way City Council update
December 2017:
Complete consultant procurement (Sound Transit Board)
January 2018:
Begin technical work
Complete partnering Agreement
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Connect with us
Soundtransit.org
Facebook.com/SoundTransit
Twitter.com/@SoundTransit
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Sources: Puget Sound Regional Council and 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard
Why regional transit?
Population growth
In 2015, the region grew by an average of 1,000 new residents every week. Another 800,000 people are expected to call central Puget Sound home by 2040.
The average commuter in the Seattle area traveling during peak hours experienced 63 hours of traffic delay in 2014.
Traffic delays
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Just last year, the region added 52,000 people – that’s 1,000 more people every week, and at average rates of car ownership, more than 100 new cars on our roads everyday.
Population and job growth can be great for the economy but can be a challenge for mobility.
Whether for work or day care pick-ups, it takes longer and longer to reliably arrive at the same destination year over year.
Hours of delay on the Central Puget Sound region’s freeways increased by 95% between 2010 and 2015. Source: Freeway Count Detectors, TRAC Flow, – Washington State Department of Transportation
According to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard, commuters in the Seattle area now spend 63 hours – or the equivalent of a week and a half of work – stuck in traffic each year.
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Kent/Des Moines to Federal Way LRT (2024)
Federal Way to Tacoma Dome LRT (2030)
Tacoma Link extension to Tacoma CC (2039)
Infill Link station at Boeing Access Rd. (2031)
I-405/SR 518 Bus Rapid Transit (2024)
Bus investments – East Pierce (2019-2024)
Bus investments - Pacific Avenue & Lakewood
Sounder expansion to DuPont & Tillicum (2036)
Sounder capital improvements (2024-2036)
Access Improvements (2021 & 2023)
HCT study: Sounder to Orting & LR to Tacoma Mall
South corridor investments
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Light Rail
The proposal is to extend light rail to Tacoma by 2030. The ST Board is very interested in working closely with our planning partners including the local jurisdictions to accelerate
timelines when possible.
Travel between SeaTac airport and Federal Way on light rail would take 14 minutes; significantly faster than today’s light rail trip from the airport to downtown Seattle.
It would take 70 minutes to get to get from Tacoma to downtown Seattle, without the hassle of sitting in traffic and searching for a place to park when you arrive.
ST3 also proposes to extend Tacoma Link to Tacoma Community College, a 33 min trip from downtown.
The current ST2 approved Tacoma Link Extension connecting downtown to Multicare and Franciscan Hospitals is scheduled to begin construction in 2018.
Sounder South rail line
Linking Lakewood, Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner, Kent, Tukwila, and Seattle we’ve seen a 15% increase in ridership in the last year.
This service operates primarily on BNSF tracks during commute times. However, on September 12th we will add a mid-day trip that leaves Lakewood at 10:18 a.m. and stops at all south
line stations before arriving in Seattle at 11:31 a.m. The return train in the afternoon will depart King Street Station at 2:32 p.m. and arrive in Lakewood at 3:45 p.m.
We are anticipating continued growth on this line and plan to add two more ST2 voter-approved peak period trips in 2017
ST3 would add 40% more capacity to this service by lengthening trains and platforms from 7 to 10 trains and provides the potential to make track and signal upgrades enabling additional
trips
ST3 also proposes to extend Sounder to Tillicum and DuPont serving Joint Base Lewis McChord and includes parking at both stations.
ST Express bus
One of the largest regional bus systems in the nation, ST3 includes investments to improve bus speed and reliability throughout the region because our buses are getting stuck in traffic,
even in the HOV lanes.
These investments would include improvements at intersections in East Pierce County to prioritize buses through the lights to Sumner Sounder Station as well as, under the worst traffic
conditions, provide the opportunity for buses to use the shoulder of the roadway in some areas on I-5 and SR 167 to reach their destinations on time.
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or people making connections to and from Pierce and East King County, ST3 would build out bus rapid transit (BRT) in the I-405 corridor. Pierce County residents could connect to this
facility via light rail or Sounder in Tukwila.
Sound Transit works closely with our local transit agency partners, who we rely on to feed local riders into our regional system. And ST3 includes a contribution to Pierce Transit’s
long- planned BRT route on Pacific Ave; connecting communities in South Pierce County to Tacoma Dome. As well as increased connections between Lakewood and Tacoma Dome.
Lastly, ST3 funds studies for future rail connections to Orting and Tacoma Mall.
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Meeting growing demand
Ridership (millions)
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ACTUAL
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2016
Source: Sound Transit ridership reports, service implementation plan and financial plan.
University Link & Angle Lake Stations open:
23% ridership increase over 2015
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Sound Transit’s ridership has increased steadily the past 16 years as the agency has brought more and more services online.
We provided nearly 43 million rides in 2016.
Today we carry about 152,000 riders on the average weekday on all our Sound Transit trains and buses. (As of March 2017)
With the new light rail stations now open at UW, Capitol Hill, and Angle Lake Station, we expect to carry an estimated 47 million riders in 2017.
And by the time we complete the system expansion, we project the system will be carrying between 176 – 216 million passengers each year.
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Funding
The ST3 Plan would be paid for by taxes authorized by the State Legislature in addition to federal grants, existing taxes, bonds and fares.
The typical adult in the Sound Transit District would pay $169 per year or $14 per month.
This amount is based on estimated of median additional amounts that people would pay for each tax, meaning half of people would pay more and half of people would pay less.
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New taxes: $27.7B
Bonds: $11B
Existing taxes: $8.6B
Federal grants: $4.7B
Fares/other: $1.8B
$54 billion
in mass transit projects
over next 25 years
Of which $27.7 billion in new taxes
16%
20%
9%
3%
52%
Funding
ST3 is projected to cost $54 billion, of which about half is financed from the new taxes that voters will consider this November
Bonds, existing taxes, fares and interest earnings make up $21.4 billion
Federal Grants are projected to contribute the remaining $4.7 billion.
Sound Transit has a solid history of attracting federal funding for its projects. This is due to our strong track record delivering projects on time and on budget, verified by quarterly
reviews of the agency.
By way of example, Lynnwood Link under construction is on track to receive $1.2 billion in federal funding.
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