Build Responsible Transit in LFP

Remember This Image? This was the image that CORE published in 2023 that awakened the community to the impacts in Lake Forest Park (LFP) of the Sound Transit Stride-3 bus rapid transit (BRT) project that was approved by voters in 2016.   The dramatic Sound Transit design change that shifted SR522 to the West in 2021 was not clear to LFP residents during the limited public engagement during COVID. The top half shows the LFP we know: a green gateway of trees and shrubs providin

Cumulative impacts of regional highway projects will create a traffic perfect storm in our area

We haven’t posted to our blog for several months and some may have felt that the quiet from CORE meant that our campaign to convince...

The Metro 372 Bus Will be Retired Next Year Prior blog posts have compared Sound Transit’s expected 2-minute improvement in bus travel...

CORE has recently completed a comprehensive report of the Sound Transit SR 522/145th BRT project planned for our community.  The report...

Recent comments have made clear that some in our community have some misconceptions about the Sound Transit Stride 3 dedicated bus lane...

Sound Transit says that queue jumps won't work because the queue is virtually the whole length of our 1.2-mile segment. We disagree with...

There has been a groundswell of opposition to the Sound Transit SR 522 BRT design as our Lake Forest Park (LFP) neighbors have learned of...

I was born in the Emerald City, in the Evergreen State, and I moved to Lake Forest Park ten years ago. If there’s a theme here, it’s that...

Thanks to approximately 450 of our neighbors who attended the August 2 Sound Transit informational meeting at Lake Forest Elementary...

A big thanks to the 150-200 people who showed up for the rally last night in front of City Hall. Thanks, also, to the many people who...

The BRT project will negatively impact the Lake Forest Park community not only during the two years of construction, but also after the...