Residents or businesses with any complaints about the Federal Way light rail project can call the project hotline (24 hours) at 1-88.
The Sound Transit Board plans to pick a site for the facility in 2021.
Sound Transit had expected to open that facility in 2026, but it’s likely that date could be pushed back to 2027 or 2028, Peterson said. The facility is needed for maintenance and storage of light rail vehicles that serve the south end. The draft statement was expected to be out in November for public comment, but that has been pushed back to the first quarter of 2021, Peterson said. Three sites are being studied - two in Federal Way and one in Kent - at the former landfill. Work continues on the draft environmental impact statement for a new Operations and Maintenance Facility to be built in either Kent or Federal Way. Artists also receive fees for the temporary artwork. Three works will be at the Kent/Des Moines Station, two at the Star Lake Station in Kent and three at the Federal Way Transit Center station. Permanent artwork will be installed once the stations are built at a cost of about $3 million, according to Sound Transit. Sound Transit includes spending on art as part of each project. Similar to what Sound Transit installed this summer in the Federal Way section of the project, 58 murals are scheduled to be installed in October on the construction fence in the Kent/Des Moines Station area.Įight artists were selected to do the work, which will remain in place for three years. Another $629 million will come from the federal loan to be repaid by Sound Transit tax revenues and about $145 million is covered by Sound Transit bond proceeds repaid by tax revenues. Payment for about $1.5 billion of the $3.1 billion project cost is expected to come from Sound Transit dedicated sales as well as rental car, motor vehicle excise tax and property tax revenues. Sound Transit will then test the system from 2023 to 2024 before it opens to the public. Heavy construction on the extension will be from 2020 to 2023.
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