It can also cross SR 99 further north where it isn’t as deep while avoiding the need for a complex and expensive mined station under the highway. It’s aligned with the Denny station which means isolated construction impacts and the potential for a shallow station. Though it’s still slightly to the west of the center of South Lake Union, the walkshed includes nearly all of this dense neighborhood. The Center of SLU deserves a station.Ī station under Westlake located approximately between Harrison and Republican has a lot of advantages. We can avoid all of those issues and build a station that serves South Lake Union far better by building the SLU station on Westlake.
Both stations are monumentally difficult to build and expensive due to their proximity to highway 99. The Mercer option is slightly less deep at about 85’ but its location west of highway 99 isn’t really in SLU and involves an extremely poor pedestrian environment. The Harrison option is deep at about 120’ and all the way on the western edge of SLU. When looking at the two options presented by Sound Transit for South Lake Union (SLU) in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), we’re struck by how poorly the station will serve South Lake Union.
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