Event
OMF South public meeting #1
Attend an online public meeting and hearing to learn more about the OMF South project and make a verbal comment. Attend the meeting
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Project update
First OMF South Draft EIS public meeting and hearing tonight!
Join us tonight (Wednesday night), March 24, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.! Learn more and comment on Sound Transit’s new Operations and Maintenance Facility South to be located in South King County. At the…
News release
Public comment period on Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Operations and Maintenance Facility South begins today
Today, Sound Transit issued a Draft Environment Impact Statement for building and operating a Link light rail Operations and Maintenance Facility in the South Sound. The Draft EIS, prepared in…
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The Platform
Share your thoughts on the Operations and Maintenance Facility South
Sound Transit will be expanding our light rail train fleet in the coming years to support future Link extensions to Tacoma and throughout the region. To receive these new electric trains, we first…
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Project update
Comment by April 19 on South King County’s new light rail maintenance facility
Sound Transit is expanding our light rail train fleet in the coming years to support future Link extensions to Tacoma and throughout the region. To receive these new electric trains, we first need to…
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Project update
What's an OMF?
Sound Transit's regional light rail system is expanding! To service and maintain additional light rail vehicles, we need to build a new facility in South King County: the Operations and Maintenance…
![Photo of a worker installing LED lights on Link Train, Operations and Maintenance Facility South Project update](/sites/default/files/styles/post_thumbnail/public/2021-01/omf-led-link.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=zEn7-ohi)
Project update
OMF South Draft EIS coming March 5: We need your input!
On March 5, Sound Transit will publish the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Operations and Maintenance Facility South. A Draft EIS is an important milestone in determining where we…
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Project update
OMF South environmental review schedule
Our project team is currently working on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS, as part of our environmental review process. The Draft EIS will analyze and document the three site…
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Project update
Upcoming fieldwork for the OMF South project
Over the past few weeks, you have may have seen crews conducting land and water surveys in Kent and Federal Way. These teams are working to better understand conditions at and near the three sites we…
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Project update
Thanks for joining us last fall!
In November we shared an Operations and Maintenance Facility South update, including a status report on potential sites. Thank you to everyone who came out to say hello at a drop-in session or joined…