Community stakeholders and partners

Agency partners

Sound Transit partners with agencies to integrate WSLE into the surrounding communities and transportation networks. 

• The City of Seattle leads station area planning to encourage transit-oriented neighborhoods around light rail, including collaborating with communities in and around West Seattle Junction to shape future growth and mobility. Sound Transit is also working closely with the city to update the WSLE Racial Equity Toolkit (RET) for the design phase. The toolkit outlines a process and set of questions to guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of the project advancing racial equity. Learn more about our past WSLE racial equity work in the 2022 Racial Equity Toolkit Report.
• King County Metro works with Sound Transit to integrate light rail with future service plans.
• The Port of Seattle collaborates with Sound Transit to ensure intersections between Port of Seattle and Sound Transit facilities support the health of the region’s broader transportation and freight systems.

Previous stakeholder input

Sound Transit engaged a Stakeholder Advisory Group and Elected Leadership Group to inform the West Seattle Link Extension and Ballard Link Extension (WSBLE) projects during the alternatives development phase from 2018 to 2019. These groups met regularly to review technical information and public feedback. They provided recommendations to the Sound Transit Board as alternatives moved through the evaluation and screening process.

From 2021 to 2022, Sound Transit engaged Community Advisory Groups to share information, collaborate around project issues and tradeoffs, and hear community values, concerns, and ideas. The Sound Transit Board used feedback from these groups to finalize the preferred alternative for the WSBLE projects.