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Washington

5 buyers · 57 tenders · checked 2026-10-03

Sound Transit R2026-11: $34.5bn gap; West Seattle $6.8bn, Tacoma Dome $6.6bn, Ballard $17.8bn; Series 3 LRV and W100 SODO solicitations out.

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Live pipeline: $6.8bn West Seattle Link, $6.6bn Tacoma Dome Link, $17.8bn Ballard Link initial segment, $6.1bn plus $3.4bn Everett Link and $2.5bn OMF South in the updated ST3 System Plan; $1.855bn of Sound Transit system expansion budgeted in 2026
Technology areas: Rolling-stock hardware, Signalling & train control, Track & civil, Electrification, Predictive maintenance, Digital operations, Cybersecurity, AI inspection

Key figures

Cost savings or new funding the…$34.5 billionCost savings or new funding the Fall 2025 Long-Range Financial Plan estimates is required to fully fund the ST3 programme on the existing schedule, through 2046 in year-of-expenditure dollars — the finding behind Resolution R2026-11 of 28 May 2026, which supersedes the 2021 realignment

2 sources · all primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Resolution No. R2026-11, Updating the ST3 System Plan (Board final action 28 May 2026), with Attachment A tables 1-3 and the updated sources-and-uses summary (published 2026-05-28 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

Sound Transit's 2026 budget: $3…$3.3 billionSound Transit's 2026 budget: $3.3bn of revenues and other financing sources against $3.3bn of expenses and outlays, including $1.855bn of system expansion (up 46 per cent on 2025 actuals), $205m of service delivery projects, $912.8m of modal operating expense and $233.4m of TIFIA loan proceeds

1 source · primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

Link light rail at June 2026: t…43 miles, 33 stationsLink light rail at June 2026: the 1 Line between Lynnwood and Federal Way and the 2 Line between Lynnwood and Redmond, a fleet the Transit Development Plan gives as “218+”, of which 154 are Siemens cars rising to 162; the same plan gives the Kinkisharyo/Mitsui fleet as both 64 and 62 — see the fleet record. Eight-minute peak headways, operated and maintained by King County Metro under contract from OMF Central in SODO and OMF East in Bellevue

2 sources · all primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Report - Transit Development Plan 2026-2031 (submitted under RCW 35.58.2795; information current as of June 2026; Board adoption scheduled 27 August 2026) (published 2026-08-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

Link light rail 2026 budget: 5050.5 million boardings budgetedLink light rail 2026 budget: 50,466,507 boardings, up 34.1 per cent on 2025's 37,638,735 actual, with 1,001,371 revenue vehicle hours and $62.88m of fare revenue against $542.67m of operating cost and an 11.6 per cent farebox recovery rate, in the first full year of service to Federal Way and Downtown Redmond and the Crosslake Connection

1 source · primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

Sounder commuter rail: the S an…81.8 miles, 12 stationsSounder commuter rail: the S and N Lines from Lakewood to Everett through King Street Station, 78 railcars (30 cab and 48 coach cars from Bombardier) and 14 locomotives, operated under contract by BNSF Railway and maintained by Amtrak at Holgate yard; 1,988,978 boardings in 2025 and 2,123,309 budgeted for 2026

2 sources · all primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Report - Transit Development Plan 2026-2031 (submitted under RCW 35.58.2795; information current as of June 2026; Board adoption scheduled 27 August 2026) (published 2026-08-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

The T Line streetcar in Tacoma7.51 miles, 12 stationsThe T Line streetcar in Tacoma, opened 2003 and extended to Hilltop: eight vehicles, three from Inekon and Skoda and five from Brookville Equipment Corporation, operated and maintained by Sound Transit with a maximum of five cars scheduled; 987,182 boardings in 2025 (actual, preliminary and unaudited) on an operating cost of $21.21m in 2025, with 1,013,147 boardings and $25.76m of operating cost budgeted for 2026

2 sources · all primary

● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Report - Transit Development Plan 2026-2031 (submitted under RCW 35.58.2795; information current as of June 2026; Board adoption scheduled 27 August 2026) (published 2026-08-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)

Amtrak Cascades in 2025: 916916,000 riders; $72.42m operating costAmtrak Cascades in 2025: 916,000 riders and $39,888,000 of ticket revenue across the whole corridor, down 8 per cent and 2.7 per cent on 2024's record 993,000, after Amtrak grounded the Horizon car fleet for structural defects and replaced it with AmFleet cars with 20 per cent less seating; on-time performance rose from 49 to 61 per cent. On the Washington-supported trains WSDOT publishes total operating costs of $72,421,000 in 2025 against revenues of $39,489,000 — a farebox recovery rate of 54.5 per cent, up from 52.9 per cent in 2024, when costs were $78,099,000 and revenues $41,311,000

1 source · primary

● Washington State Department of Transportation · Amtrak Cascades: 2025 Performance Data Report (Rail, Freight and Ports Division, March 2026) (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-09-14)

The Amtrak Cascades corridor: 3…467 milesThe Amtrak Cascades corridor: 300 miles in Washington, 134 in Oregon and 33 in British Columbia, with six daily round trips between Seattle and Portland, two between Seattle and Vancouver BC and two between Portland and Eugene, more than 4,000 trains a year serving 18 cities

1 source · primary

● Washington State Department of Transportation · How we manage the trains — Amtrak Cascades sponsorship, corridor management, business model and train equipment (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

The Seattle Streetcar: the 2.5-…3.8 miles, 17 stopsThe Seattle Streetcar: the 2.5-mile, ten-stop First Hill Line and the 1.3-mile, seven-stop South Lake Union Line, owned and managed by SDOT and operated by King County Metro; the 1.27-mile Culture Connector between them has been paused since June 2020

3 sources · all primary

● Seattle Department of Transportation · Seattle Streetcar — First Hill Line and South Lake Union Line (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Seattle Department of Transportation · Seattle Department of Transportation — Culture Connector project page (the former Center City Connector path at /transit-program/center-city-connector returns HTTP 301 to this URL) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Seattle Department of Transportation · Transit Program — Seattle Streetcar ownership and King County Metro operation; Seattle Transportation Levy transit corridors funding (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Washington on the FTA Capital I…1 rail projectWashington on the FTA Capital Investment Grant dashboard of 11 September 2026: the Tacoma Dome Link Extension is the only rail project, in Project Development since 10 September 2026 at $5,400m-$6,100m with an estimated grant date of spring 2029; the other Washington entries are bus rapid transit and the bi-state Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

1 source · primary

● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (data last updated 09/10/2026) (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

Buyer	Type	Tenders	Contracts awarded
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit)	Transit authority	53	12
Washington State Department of Transportation	State DOT	3	0
Seattle Department of Transportation	Transit authority	1	0
King County Metro Transit	Transit authority	0	0
Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission	Regulator / standards	0	0

Tenders

Tender	Buyer	Status	Value band	Next key date
Sound Transit Link light rail vehicle simulator	Sound Transit	Open	value not published	Published August 2026
Sounder commuter rail HVAC overhaul	Sound Transit	Open	value not published	Published July 2026
Ballard Link Extension civil engineering design	Sound Transit	Pre-bid	no value published (pre-solicitation notice)
Sound Transit Series 3 light rail vehicles	Sound Transit	Bids closed	value not published
West Seattle Link Extension packages · 2 parts	Sound Transit	Bids closed	Varies by part
West Seattle Link Extension W100 SODO Station	Sound Transit	Bids closed	value not published	Published August 2026
West Seattle Link Extension W200 Duwamish River Crossing	Sound Transit	Bids closed	value not published	Bids closed July 2026 · award expected
Sound Transit Asset Management System Redesign	Sound Transit	Awarded	$25–100m	Awarded August 2026
East Link Extension 2 Line Lake Washington	Sound Transit	In execution	over $1bn
Series 2 light rail vehicle fleet expansion	Sound Transit	In execution	$500m–1bn
Ballard Link Extension project development services	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded April 2026
Link Operations and Maintenance Facility East, Bellevue	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Operations and Maintenance Facility South design-build	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded March 2026
Palouse River and Coulee City Rail rehabilitation	WSDOT	In execution	$100–500m
Pinehurst infill station Link 1 and 2 Lines	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Sound Transit commuter rail vehicle mid-life overhaul	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Sound Transit light rail vehicle programme	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Sound Transit elevator and escalator modernisation	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Sumner, Kent and Auburn Sounder station parking improvements	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
Tacoma Trestle track and signal double-track replacement	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m
West Seattle Link Extension Phase 2 design	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded June 2026
West Seattle Ballard Link Extensions programme management	Sound Transit	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded June 2026
Cascadia High-Speed Rail Vancouver Seattle Portland	WSDOT	In execution	$25–100m
Sound Transit asset management support services	Sound Transit	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded May 2026
Sound Transit digital passenger information system	Sound Transit	In execution	$25–100m
Sound Transit facility property programme security upgrades	Sound Transit	In execution	$25–100m
Sounder Rail Track and Signal Improvement Phase 3	Sound Transit	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded April 2026
Sounder commuter rail car overhaul services	Sound Transit	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded August 2025
Graham Street Boeing Access Road infill stations	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded January 2026
Link light rail brake and door equipment supply	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m
Sound Transit environmental mitigation monitoring	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded June 2026
Sound Transit signage programme East Link Extension	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded August 2026
Sounder D-to-M Track and Signal Hilltop Tacoma Link	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded July 2026
T Line streetcar fleet Brookville light rail	Sound Transit	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2025
Ballard Link Extension nine stations downtown Seattle	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
Everett Link Extension phase 1 phase 2	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
Interstate Bridge Replacement Program light rail extension	WSDOT	Planned	over $1bn
Sounder South additional trips capacity expansion	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
South Kirkland to Issaquah Link	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
T Line extension Tacoma Community College	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
Tacoma Dome Link Extension four stations	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
West Seattle Link Extension four stations	Sound Transit	Planned	over $1bn
Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel modernisation programme	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Lakewood and South Tacoma Sounder station access	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Seattle Culture Connector streetcar South Lake Union	SDOT	Planned	$100–500m
Sound Transit crossings and train control programme	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Sound Transit innovation and technology programme	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Sound Transit transit system access programme	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Sounder Maintenance Base heavy rail storage	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
Sounder fleet expansion	Sound Transit	Planned	$100–500m
North Corridor maintenance-of-way facility	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sound Transit facility electrical programme backup power	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sound Transit ORCA next generation fare systems	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sound Transit fire, life and safety systems	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sound Transit guideway programmes controls and structural	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sound Transit 1 Line traction power modernisation	Sound Transit	Planned	$25–100m
Sounder extension to DuPont	Sound Transit	Planned	$5–25m
Tacoma Dome Station parking and access improvements	Sound Transit	Planned	$5–25m

Cities

City	Network status	Networks
Seattle	operational — Sound Transit's Link 1 and 2 Lines through the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, Sounder S and N Lines from King Street Station, the two Seattle Streetcar lines, and Amtrak Cascades, which shares King Street Station with Sounder	Link light rail (1 Line, 2 Line); Sounder commuter rail (S Line, N Line); Seattle Streetcar (South Lake Union, First Hill); Amtrak Cascades
Tacoma	operational — the 7.51-mile, twelve-station T Line streetcar from Tacoma Dome Station to the Hilltop neighbourhood, the southern end of Sounder's S Line, and Amtrak Cascades at Tacoma Dome Station; the future southern terminus of the Tacoma Dome Link Extension	T Line (Tacoma Link); Sounder commuter rail (S Line); Amtrak Cascades
Everett	operational — the northern end of Sounder's N Line and Amtrak Cascades; the planned northern terminus of the Everett Link Extension, whose two phases carry the north operations and maintenance facility	Sounder commuter rail (N Line); Amtrak Cascades
Olympia	state capital — seat of the Washington State Department of Transportation, whose Rail, Freight and Ports Division sponsors Amtrak Cascades, and of the Utilities and Transportation Commission, which runs the state rail safety programme; no urban rail network of its own

Players with a footprint here

Player	Kind	Footprint
Kimley-Horn	Engineering consultant	Project presence

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Sources

● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard, CIG-Public-Dashboard-09-11-2026.pdf (data last updated 09/10/2026) (published 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Interstate Bridge Replacement Program (WSDOT and Oregon Department of Transportation) · Cost Estimate & Funding — 2026 updated cost estimate for the five-mile corridor and the core set of projects (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Seattle Department of Transportation · Seattle Department of Transportation — Culture Connector project page (the former Center City Connector path at /transit-program/center-city-connector returns HTTP 301 to this URL) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Seattle Department of Transportation · Delivery Assessment - Center City Connector, Executive Summary, 31 October 2023 (published 2023-10-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · 2026 Adopted Budget and Financial Plan — agency overview, transit operating budgets by mode, project budgets, Transit Improvement Plan and Appendix I project and programme detail pages (published 2026-03-23 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Open and Closed Contracts Awarded in Excess of $100,000 (trailing 12 months), generated 8/3/2026 (published 2026-08-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Quarterly Procurement Look Ahead — upcoming architectural, engineering and construction procurements over the next 18 to 24 months, last updated July 2026 (published 2026-07 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Resolution No. R2026-11, Updating the ST3 System Plan (Board final action 28 May 2026), with Attachment A tables 1-3 and the updated sources-and-uses summary (published 2026-05-28 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Presentation - System Expansion Monthly Status Report, System Expansion Committee 10 September 2026 (published 2026-09-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Procurement Snapshot — active and future procurement activity, refresh date 08/30/2026 (published biweekly; includes procurement activity estimated to cost $250,000 or more) (published 2026-08-30 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Report - Transit Development Plan 2026-2031 (submitted under RCW 35.58.2795; information current as of June 2026; Board adoption scheduled 27 August 2026) (published 2026-08-06 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) · Sound Transit vendor portal (Biddingo) — bid listing, 13 solicitations open for bidding on 14 September 2026 (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission · About the Rail Safety Program — inspections, crossing projects, incident investigation and the Grade Crossing Protective Fund, with the programme's published contact desk (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Washington State Department of Transportation · Amtrak Cascades: 2025 Performance Data Report (Rail, Freight and Ports Division, March 2026) (published 2026-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Washington State Department of Transportation · Freight & railway business programs — Palouse River and Coulee City (PCC) Rail System and its current capital improvement programme (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Washington State Department of Transportation · How we manage the trains — Amtrak Cascades sponsorship, corridor management, business model and train equipment (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Washington State Department of Transportation · Cascadia High-Speed Rail — study page with timeline, status and budget (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

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