Sound Transit

Sound Transit
Sound Transit
	Union Station, Sound Transit's headquarters since 1999
Agency overview
Formed	September 17, 1993
Jurisdiction	Seattle metropolitan area
Headquarters	Union Station; 401 S. Jackson Street; Seattle, Washington
Employees	802
Annual budget	$1.6 billion USD (2017)
Agency executive	Dow Constantine, CEO
Key document	Revised Code of Washington Chapter 81.112
Website
	soundtransit.org

Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is the public transit system in the Seattle metropolitan area, Washington, United States. It covers Seattle and its satellite cities with light rail trains (called Link light rail), commuter trains (Sounder), and buses (Sound Transit Express). Sound Transit gets its money from sales tax, property tax, and a fee on license plate stickers ("car tabs").

Sound Transit Media

Map of the proposed Forward Thrust rapid transit system from the second referendum in 1970
A Sound Transit Express bus on route 550 in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
Joni Earl (pictured in 2009) was the chief executive officer of Sound Transit from 2001 to 2014
The first light rail line in the region, Tacoma Link, opened in August 2003
The opening ceremonies for Capitol Hill station on the University Link Extension took place on March 19, 2016.
Lynnwood City Center station on its opening day in 2024
The Ruth Fisher Board Room at Union Station
A map of the five subareas within the Sound Transit district
A King County Sheriff's Office patrol car in Sound Transit Police livery
Aerial view of the Spring District, a large transit-oriented development that developed around a light rail station in Bellevue.