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• 2022 Puyallup and Sumner station parking and access <br />• 2023 Kent and Auburn stations parking and access improvements <br />• 2036 Dupont sounder extension <br />Sounder South: Service started in 2000 with two roundtrips. Today 13 daily round trips. Special events <br />trains for Seahawk games and other events. Ridership continues to grow, strongest during peak hours. <br />To mitigate growth, we are expanding trains from 7-10 cars including platform extensions and access <br />improvements for pedestrians, bicyclists, buses and cars. Sound Transit is conducting a strategic <br />planning process to develop implementation and external engagement including ridership forecasting. <br />We are looking for opportunities to improve our service and make it more efficient. Considerations <br />about expansion: <br />• BNSF owns tracks from Tacoma to Seattle and new trips are costly <br />• Freight traffic is concentrated outside of peak commute period <br />• Midday train storage is limited <br />• King Street Station tracks and center platform are constrained <br />• BNSF crews are union employees and there are restrictions on crew hours <br />Tacoma Dome Link Extension: 9.7 additional miles with four stations, to open in 2030. New operations <br />and maintenance facility will open in 2026 in S King County. Currently in the middle of the 30 day <br />comment period for the Tacoma Dome expansion. Sound Transit wants your input on what the <br />preferred alternative is and other alternatives. This includes station locations. The Board will be making <br />a decision on this later this year. Public meetings are this and next week during the month of April. <br />Q: Sounds like we are planning to add more cars to Sounder Trains. Will it slow trains down from <br />boarding, car malfunctions? Evaluating that now. Don't anticipate any issues. Our locomotives are able <br />to haul ten car train sets. Including access for ADA. <br />5. SCATBD Operating Agreement: Changes approved to include language on food and beverage purchases. <br />6. Public Comment: <br />Larry B.: Pilot for Alaska airlines. Trying to be part of the solution. We formed Quiet Skies in Burien. <br />Coming together April 25th in Burien at the PAC. Speaker is US Rep. Adam Smith about DC legislation. <br />Along with a special report from the World Health Org. This event will educate and inform and <br />empower citizens. <br />Debbie Wagner: World Health Org. talking at the meeting. WHO is saying that 45db is not okay and that <br />is what the Port has insulated to. Port is doing something differently than what they are saying. The <br />demand they reference is from Delta using Seattle as a hub to fly additional planes to the far -east. The <br />airport is producing too much noise, too much pollution. <br />Bernadine: from Federal Way. Demand is being created by advertising that has to stop. Aviation <br />represents 5% of CO2 emissions and is the fastest growing industry in the world. Releasing damaging <br />gases in the atmosphere. Airport growth and flights are not sustainable. The SAMP is based on current <br />legislation. There is a lag between what is right and ethical and moral and legislation. The FAA <br />authorization bill took away people's rights to take noise away from overhead of people's houses. <br />Meeting adjourned 10:19 a.m. <br />70 <br />