[nfbwatlk] FW: Sound Transit CEO Report

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CEO Report 

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>From Joni Earl 

March 13, 2009 


In this edition 


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Joe Marine joins Sound Transit Board 

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Federal stimulus package update 

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Light rail on the way 

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Photo of the Week 

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Mountlake Terrace Freeway Station 

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Sound Transit Board action Thursday 



Joe Marine joins Sound Transit Board 

Joe Marine, the Mayor of Mukilteo and member of the Community Transit Board,
has joined Sound Transit's Board. Mr. Marine takes the place of Deanna
Dawson who left the Board late last year. 

Mr. Marine was elected Mukilteo Mayor in 2005. Before that he was a Mukilteo
Councilmember and also served in the state House of Representatives. Mr.
Marine is a boardmember of the Puget Sound Regional Council's Executive and
Operations Committee, the National League of Cities' Public Safety and Crime
Prevention Committee, Snohomish County Cities' Legislative Committee and
Executive Board as well as the Association of Washington Cities. 

We're very pleased to welcome the experience and dedication he brings to the
Board. 

Federal stimulus package update 

The Puget Sound Regional Council on Thursday approved the list of
recipients, including Sound Transit, that are receiving this region's
federal stimulus package dollars. 

Sound Transit was awarded $23 million in Federal Transit Administration
formula funding dollars, which will be spread equally to projects in each of
the agency's five subareas: Snohomish County, Pierce County and north, east
and south King County. 

Specifically, the $23 million will be used on University Link construction,
to help buy clean fuel buses for East King County, help build the Mountlake
Terrace Freeway Station in Snohomish County, help pay for the M Street to
Lakewood Sounder track and signal improvements in Pierce County and will go
towards the Sounder Tukwila Station in South King County. 

Sound Transit will also pursue additional federal stimulus dollars in coming
months. 

Light rail on the way 
The Link light rail line from downtown Seattle to Tukwila is more than 96
percent complete and on schedule to open for passengers in July. That was
the good news presented Thursday to the Sound Transit Board. 

All 35 Link vehicles are delivered and testing of the vehicles and the line
continues. In addition, all the heavy mining and concrete work in the Beacon
Hill Tunnel is finished. Underway now in the tunnel is the installation of
mechanical and electrical systems. 

The Board was also given an update on the Airport Link line from Tukwila to
Sea-Tac Airport, which is about 80 percent complete and on schedule to open
in late December of this year. Until trains connect with the airport, free
connector buses will carry passengers directly from the Tukwila station to
the airport terminal, just minutes away. 

Photo of the Week 

Our photo this week gives you an inside look at the underground Beacon Hill
light rail station. 

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Mountlake Terrace Freeway Station 

The Sound Transit Board on Thursday approved an agreement with the state
Department of Transportation to provide construction and construction
management for the Mountlake Terrace Freeway Station Project. 

Construction is expected to begin soon on the freeway station that will be
located in the I-5 freeway median at 236th Street Southwest in Snohomish
County. It includes a pedestrian bridge connecting the station to the
Mountlake Terrace Park-and-Ride lot. The station is expected to open in 2011
and allows us to serve Mountlake Terrace with ST Express Bus service. 

The agreement approved Thursday was for up to $23.7 million, which includes
a 5 percent contingency. 

The Sound Transit Board on Thursday: 

*	Approved an increase in the project contingency within Schedule F of
the TubeArt System Wide Signage contract in the amount of $500,000 for
station customer signage for the Central Link Initial Segment and Airport
Link projects for a new total authorized contract amount not to exceed
$6,018,639, which includes costs reimbursable to Sound Transit from King
County Metro for betterment work. 


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