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Seattle Transit Funding Faces the Hard-Math Phase
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 · 9 min
Seattle’s transportation reform agenda is running into hard math: a county funding measure may send the city less than its tax base suggests, while Sound Transit’s ST3 rescue options now involve real truncations, cancellations, and tradeoffs.
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Seattle’s transportation reform agenda is running into hard math: a county funding measure may send the city less than its tax base suggests, while Sound Transit’s ST3 rescue options now involve real truncations, cancellations, and tradeoffs.
In this episode
- New County Transportation Funding Measure Could Shortchange Seattle — The Urbanist
New County Transportation Funding Measure Could Shortchange Seattle 📰 Support nonprofit journalism Donate # New County Transportation Funding Measure Could Shortchange Seattle By Ryan Packer- May 18, 2026 Share An amendment put forward by Steffanie Fain would cap Seattle's participation in a new pass-through funding program to well below the city's proportional share of the tax, resulting in…
- Step Back — If Seattle voters are being asked to fund another countywide transportation measure, how can we tell whether the city is getting a fair return — what formulas, service metrics, or legal guardrails decide where the money actually goes?
Background sources
- Source — White, Carrie
- Seattle Transportation Levy on track to meet commitments to voters ... — Katie Olsen
- Source — Steadman, Marka
- Source — Seattletransitblog
- ST3 Truncations – Seattle Transit Blog — Seattle Transit Blog
 # ST3 Truncations  Sound Transit finally addressed their severe budget shortfalls at the [March 18 Board…
- Shallow Cogitations: This Doesn't Look Good — Shallow Cogitations
Shallow Cogitations: This Doesn't Look Good skip to main | skip to sidebar [The] Cascade Bicycle Club and the City of Seattle are being sued by a coalition of Ballard industrial businesses, industrial associations and the Ballard Chamber of Commerce. The lawsuit is an appeal to the Superior Court and challenges the city’s plans to complete the “Missing Link” of the Burke-Gilman Trail. The…
- Lummi Nation to open first-of-its-kind substance withdrawal center this summer — Cascadia Daily News
Lummi Nation to open first-of-its-kind substance withdrawal center this summer | Cascadia Daily News # Lummi Nation to open first-of-its-kind substance withdrawal center this summer ## 16-bed facility is the first tribally owned, operated withdrawal site on tribal land in Washington - May 17, 2026 6:43 p.m. Lummi Nation Chairman Anthony Hillaire told a crowd May 17 that the nation's new Secure…