East Link is Sound Transit’s voter-approved project to expand light rail from downtown Seattle to the Eastside with stations serving Mercer Island, south Bellevue, downtown Bellevue, Bel-Red, and Redmond’s Overlake area. East Link will connect to the Link light rail system between downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport, currently under construction and scheduled to open in summer 2009. Sound Transit is also conducting environmental review on a future extension to downtown Redmond.
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East Link Project Draft EIS
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Fact Sheet, Preface and Table of Contents
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(.pdf, 1.9 kb)
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1 Purpose and Need for East Link Project
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(.pdf, 894 kb)
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2 Alternatives Considered
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(.pdf, 4.5 kb)
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3 Transportation Environment and Consequences
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(.pdf, 8.7 mb)
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4 Affected Environment and Environmental Consequences
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4.1 Acquisitions, Displacements, and Relocations
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(.pdf, 215 kb)
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4.2 Land Use
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(.pdf, 1.6 mb)
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4.3 Economics
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(.pdf, 248 kb)
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4.4 Social Impacts, Community Facilities, and Neighborhoods
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(.pdf, 1.4 mb)
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4.5 Visual and Aesthetic Resources
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(.pdf, 1.5 mb)
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4.6 Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
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(.pdf, 329 kb)
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4.7 Noise and Vibration
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(.pdf, 1.4 mb)
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4.8 Ecosystem Resources
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(.pdf, 2.8 mb)
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4.9 Water Resources
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(.pdf, 3 mb)
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4.10 Energy Impacts
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(.pdf, 187 kb)
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4.11 Geology and Soils
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(.pdf, 2.8 mb)
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4.12 Hazardous Materials
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(.pdf, 874 kb)
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4.13 Electromagnetic Fields
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(.pdf, 66 kb)
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4.14 Public Services
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(.pdf, 224 kb)
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4.15 Utilities
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(.pdf, 664 kb)
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4.16 Historic and Archaeological Resources
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(.pdf, 5.8 mb)
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4.17 Parklands and Open Space
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(.pdf, 4.6 mb)
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5 Cumulative Impacts
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(.pdf, 1.2 mb)
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6 Alternatives Evaluation
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(.pdf, 464 kb)
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