High Capacity Transit in the South End

This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.

An amendment would add planning for transit in the Burien-Tukwila-Renton corridor.

The next round of transit construction — call it ST3 — is where things are really going to get interesting. Connecting areas as diverse as Ballard, Burien, and the UW (see the pink dotted line on the map above) will be tricky. Do you continue to assume that all routes lead through Seattle, or do you start to build a line that directly connects suburbs to suburbs?

Either way, I’ll probably be dead by the time any of it gets built…