Another slide cancels Sounder north train service

BY KIRO Radio Staff  on January 9, 2013 @ 1:05 pm (Updated: 3:18 pm - 1/9/13 )

Mudslides continue to hammer away at the Amtrak and Sounder passenger train route between Seattle and Everett.

Kimberly Reason with Sound Transit says a mudslide Wednesday again forced them to cancel service until Monday morning at the earliest.

Reason says the passenger train has been shut down 95 percent of the time since Thanksgiving.

"I believe it's something like 40 percent more rain since Oct. 1 than we typically have in a rainy season," says Reason. "As of today we've had to cancel 146 trips."

The last slide on Monday had canceled trips through Thursday. Now travel will be halted until at least until Monday.

Reason says a new grant may bring improvements to keep so many slides from impacting the tracks.

"The state department of transportation has just received a grant that funding is now obligated to move forward with doing what it can to shore up parts of the shoreline along the track there."

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  • JMGilday wrote...
    I blame
    January 9, 2013 12:44 pm
    Bush / Cheney
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  • clevesside wrote...
    Does this new "grant".....
    January 9, 2013 2:16 pm
    .....buy up more track right of way? Highly, highly doubt it. Maybe more interns then....
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  • Sean wrote...
    There aren't even words
    January 9, 2013 2:23 pm
    for such an immensely huge pile of useless, subsidized, wasteful pork. Shame on the politicians who made ST even happen at all and who have perpetuated it. What a joke of an agency.
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    Throwing good money after bad.
    January 9, 2013 3:47 pm
    .
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