Alert: Sound Transit appears to be abandoning all options to go back to the 5th Avenue Diagonal plan.  Stop the travesty! 

Please sign this new petition to tell...

1) Sound Transit to keep its promise of building the voter approved 4th  Avenue Transit Hub at Union Station and 

2) remind Mayor Harrell he called the CID, “This gem of a neighborhood” and declared it "culturally infeasible to build [on 5th].”

Many of you signed the 2022 online (Move Forward on 4th) and physical petitions (almost 7,000, not including Action Network Letters).

Together, we were successful in forcing Sound Transit to consider other alternatives …

      but they are trying to reintroduce 5th Avenue as their preferred option…

                 so, we need to make our voices heard again.

From 2022 DEIS on planned impacts to the CID:

 ·Two blocks to be taken by eminent domain with demolition of historic listing eligible buildings (former Uwajimaya building & Bank of America)

·Closure of 5th Avenue S, King Street, Weller, 6th Avenue S., Jackson St.

·27 businesses and over 230 employees displaced

·Multi-story exhaust funnel, maintenance building and emergency facility to replace parking, Nagomi Teahouse, Oasis

·Giant bicycle storage shed to replace Bank of America block 

Don’t let Sound Transit force the CID to bear the brunt of “progress!” 

                               Sign this Stay Off 5th petition!

AND if you want to be more active, please send one or more of the recommended scoping comments to...        

emailtheboard@soundtransit.org  -   Sound Transit Board       

zzcncmembers@kingcounty.gov    -    King County Council

                      council@seattle.gov    -    Seattle City Council

                         Item 1 was left out of the 2022 DEIS and 

                         Item 2 is a must have for the CID. 

1. Conduct an Equity analysis of the social and economic impacts of light rail options on the CID and Pioneer Square. Such analyses were not included in the 2022 DEIS.   Needed Information for comparison of alternatives: social and economic impacts to businesses, residents, museums, schools, tourist attractions, health clinics and effects on linguistically and culturally appropriate service providers, clients, customers, and patients.
2. Extend the DEIS comment period to 90 days, as was done for the 2022 DEIS.
3. Conduct cost-benefit analysis of connectivity and accessibility of 4th Avenue alternative out to 100 years to compare with independent consultant’s report of high risk at 4th Avenue. 
4. Study/explore new, never thought of alternatives that provide best connectivity/accessibility that do not encroach on or directly impact CID, such as actually, siting the station platform at the Dearborn entrance.
5. Any light rail option on 5th Avenue poses such severe risks to the cultural and economic vitality of the endangered CID that it should be removed from consideration and noted as “culturally infeasible to build” because it disproportionately impacts  low-income, non-English speaking communities of color--a sentiment shared by all community members living in and outside of the CID. 

Thank you!

TEA Team

http://transitequityforall.org/