FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Sitting alongside the Interstate 5 corridor is one of Sound Transit’s efforts to improve travel through Puget Sound: a 7.8-mile-long extension linking downtown Seattle and Federal Way.
The Federal Way link extension will cut travel time from downtown Federal Way to SeaTac to 15 minutes, and getting from Federal Way to Seattle would take 46 minutes, according to Sound Transit.
However the agency ran into a problem: the soil underneath one of the sections is unstable.
Michael Jellison, construction manager for Sound Transit, said it was critical to make adjustments before it was too late.
“If we
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