The idea of an eastside commuter rail line, which would utilize all or part of the Burlington Northern Rail Line, is getting a lot of traction lately. Puget Sound Regional Council is even setting up a committee to study this project.

Here is a note that city council received on this item:

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You all were copied on a letter from Puget Sound Regional Council to Mayor Law asking for our jurisdiction to appoint a representative to an advisory committee for a study of the feasibility of a commuter rail line on the BNSF Railroad’s Woodinville Subdivision.

PSRC and Sound Transit are establishing an Ad Hoc BNSF Eastside Commuter Rail Feasibility Study Advisory Committee to provide input on policy questions and how local jurisdictions view the potential commuter rail uses of this corridor. The Study Timeframe is quite compressed with the majority of the work occurring in the next 6 months. With that in mind, they are porposing to meet only a couple of times. First in late June to assist with study scope and evaluation criteria and review the compilation of existing studies and later in the fall to review the draft and final study reports.

The first meeting of this Ad Hoc Committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday morning, June 25, from 9 am to 11 am in PSRC’s fifth floor Conference Room. 1011 Western Ave. in Seattle.

Are any of you interested in serving on this?

Julia