好消息，西雅圖的輕軌建設又進一步，輕軌大站Lynnwood線的經費拿到了!! 預計2024年中完工，到時候Lynnwood的居民就可以搭乘輕軌到市中心、West Seattle、或是Eastside Bellevue等等地方了。
這兩天太忙，以下新聞先放原文，之後再找時間翻成中文跟大家分享。
Sound Transit has secured a long sought-after agreement with the Trump administration for $1.2 billion in federal money for the planned 8.5-mile Northgate-to-Lynnwood light-rail line.
The agreement between Sound Transit and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) still must undergo a 30-day congressional review period, but it is highly likely that it will be finalized next month.
Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff, who previously ran the FTA for five years during the Obama administration, said that in nearly 30 years of monitoring such grants, he’s only once seen an agreement sent to Congress and not get signed.
“It really is a major breakthrough,” Rogoff said Monday. “It signals the administration’s complete intent to go forward.”
An estimated 68,500 daily riders are expected to board the Lynnwood Link trains, which will provide an option to escape some of the nation’s worst highway delays. Trains from Lynnwood would reach the University of Washington in 20 minutes, or downtown Seattle in 28 minutes.
Rogoff said early work contracts for the rail line would likely be approved next month, and construction should begin in early 2019. The rail line is scheduled to be completed in mid-2024.
Sound Transit has been counting for years on federal funding to make up nearly 40 percent of the project’s multi billion-dollar budget.
“Christmas came early to Puget Sound with a major investment in light rail going to Snohomish County,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in announcing the deal. “This agreement will link commuters and businesses throughout the region, build more parking for commuters and ease traffic congestion.”
The project has long earned high marks from the FTA for its high ridership and the substantial dollars that local residents have committed, but hoped-for federal funding has been on shaky ground since President Donald Trump took office.
詳細的Lynnwood輕軌計畫可以在這裡找到：
https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/lynnwood-link-extension
未來的Lynnwood輕軌站，就在Alderwood mall的旁邊：
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