File #: 2002-0243    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/28/2002 In control: Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/24/2002
Enactment date: 7/1/2002 Enactment #: 14396
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to an agreement for joint light rail and bus operations in the downtown Seattle transit tunnel with the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority; adopting an agreement between and among King County, the city of Seattle and the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority.
Sponsors: Dwight Pelz
Indexes: Regional Transit Authority, Seattle, City of, Sound Transit
Attachments: 1. 2002-0243 Revised Staff Report DSTT Joint Operations 6-12-02.doc, 2. 2002-0243 Staff Report DSTT Joint Operations 5-29-02.doc, 3. 2002-0243 Staff Report DSTT Joint Operations 6-05-02.doc, 4. 2002-0243 Transmittal Letter.doc, 5. A. Agreement regarding the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance dated June 24, 2002 , 6. A. Agreement regarding the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance dated June 12, 2002, 7. Agreement regarding the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance
Staff: Carlson, Paul
Drafter
Clerk 06/12/2002
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AN ORDINANCE relating to an agreement for joint light rail and bus operations in the downtown Seattle transit tunnel with the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority; adopting an agreement between and among King County, the city of Seattle and the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle ("Metro") constructed the downtown Seattle transit tunnel, which opened for service in 1990, to provide additional capacity for buses in downtown Seattle, and to provide for the downtown segment of a future rail system.
B. In 1994, King County assumed the rights, powers, functions and obligations of Metro, consequently all the powers and functions of Metro have been vested by state law in the legislative authority of King County.
C. The city of Seattle owns the right of way for the tunnel and downtown streets.
D. The King County council, in Motion 10448, passed April 27, 1998, authorized the King County executive to enter into a memorandum of understanding establishing a cooperative relationship between the Central Puget Sound Transit Authority (Sound Transit) and King County. The memorandum of understanding notes that Sound Transit will use the tunnel as an integral part of its light rail program and that King County and Sound Transit will reach agreement on the amount of compensation for any combination of use, operation and ownership, and on the appropriate terms of use for the tunnel.
E. Sound Transit proposes that the tunnel be used for joint operation of transit buses and the fourteen-mile initial segment of the voter-approved Central Link light rail system (light rail). When light rail train volumes expand sufficiently, following extension of the light rail system to the north and south, the tunnel will be converted to exclusive light rail use.
F. The King County council, in Ordinanc...

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