Sound Transit executives this week laid out how they’re dealing with President Donald Trump’s proposed transit-slashing budget.
The plan starts with a no-fear tack and builds on the agency’s longstanding ties to Washington, D.C.
Trump’s budget would cut funding for transportation grant funding, which provides about 15 percent of Sound Transit’s capital program. In the short term this would imperil $1.2 billion in funding for extending light rail from Northgate to Lynnwood and $500 million for extending…