ST3 cannot be delivered on time, so Sound Transit is considering light rail cuts ^39.8%

KUOW Public Radio - By Joshua McNichols - 3/18/2026, 10:30 PM

Sound Transit will celebrate opening a light rail connection across Lake Washington later this month, but behind the excitement, the agency faces a brutal financial future. Sound Transit can't deliver on its ST3 promises to voters by 2046 as planned. Rising land and construction costs have helped pushed project costs so high, Sound... more