LIGHT RAIL LINE FUNDS IN FEDERAL BUDGET.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: February 7, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: P-I staff and news services

SEATTLE -- Next year's proposed federal budget includes $10 million in federal money to help finance a light rail line from downtown Seattle to the University of Washington, Sound Transit said Tuesday.

The $10 million would be part of the $750 million in federal money Sound Transit seeks to help finance the 3.15 mile, $1.7 billion link Sound Transit hopes to open by 2016. Federal officials have authorized Sound Transit to de...

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