<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I saw this blog post recently: <a href="https://seattletransitblog.com/2024/11/16/ballard-link-extension-4th-ave-shallow-is-dead-long-live-5th-ave-diagonal/">https://seattletransitblog.com/2024/11/16/ballard-link-extension-4th-ave-shallow-is-dead-long-live-5th-ave-diagonal/</a>, which states:<div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Libre Franklin", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;"></p><blockquote type="cite"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Libre Franklin", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">With a station under the 4th Avenue South viaduct all but proven to be impractical, eyes are turning toward Sound Transit’s 5th Avenue Shallow Diagonal Alternative, which is a refinement of the former 5th Avenue Shallow alternative which would have shut down 5th Avenue for several years during construction and kicked off a myriad of community complaints against the proposed station.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Libre Franklin", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">This alternative would be have fewer construction impacts to traffic (only closing half a block of King Street) and few business displacements.</p></blockquote>And also:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Libre Franklin", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This station alternative has the shortest estimated construction timeline, assumes construction of a proper Midtown station near Madison (which would have easy transfers to RapidRide G) and would have similar connectivity at King Street to the original 5th Avenue alternative.</span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is the meeting where it was discussed recently: <a href="https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/calendar/system-expansion-committee-meeting-2024-11-14">https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/calendar/system-expansion-committee-meeting-2024-11-14</a></div><div><br></div><div>These are the slides from that presentation: <a href="https://www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoint/download/sites/PRDA/FinalRecords/2024/Presentation%20-%20BLE%20CID%20Additional%20Studies%2011-14-24.pdf">https://www.soundtransit.org/st_sharepoint/download/sites/PRDA/FinalRecords/2024/Presentation%20-%20BLE%20CID%20Additional%20Studies%2011-14-24.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>I don’t know enough to say whether this is or is not better than 4th shallow or the prior 5th ave alternative.</div><div><br></div><div>Cole<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 25, 2024, at 2:53 PM, Katie Wilson <katie@transitriders.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Has anyone been following the Sound Transit Chinatown-International District station placement conversation recently? We had our MASS coalition meeting today and Betty Lau from Transit Equity for All (the CID group that’s been pushing for the 4th Ave shallow option) says 5th ave is back on the table, and they’re strongly opposed because of the damage it would do to the neighborhood. I’m curious how likely it is that Sound Transit could be leaning in that direction, and whether it would make sense for TRU to weigh in. But I haven’t been following the meetings or news closely.</div><div><br></div><div>- Katie</div><div><br><div>
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