platform damage at the Tukwila Station

[natfoot]

I got this from my email:
Expect possible delays on Sounder Southline due to platform damage at the Tukwila Station.

I then went looking for more information and found this youtube video from earlier today.

quite extensive.

 

[Jon Bentz]

Thats the temporary platform at Tukwilla. These were installed several years ago and will be replaced when the permanent station is built. Needless to say, it these were the permanent concrete structures the freight car would have had substantial damage.

 

[RailroadJeep]

Thats the temporary platform at Tukwilla. These were installed several years ago and will be replaced when the permanent station is built. Needless to say, it these were the permanent concrete structures the freight car would have had substantial damage.

LOL, temporary platform... It's been "temporary" for how long now?

 

[Rader Sidetrack]

LOL, temporary platform... It's been "temporary" for how long now?

The Tukwila station first opened with those temporary platforms in 2000. Sound Transit's website claims they are building a permanent Tukwila station:

Preliminary engineering and environmental documentation was completed March 2009. Final design is scheduled for completion in November 2010. Sound Transit is working with the cities of Tukwila and Renton to establish a building schedule.

http://projects.soundtransit.org/x1821.xml?t3xt
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[trainboyh16-44]

"I CAN'T START YET I DON'T HAVE A SCHEDULE!!"
Never mind that most small stations are completed in half the time that they've been waiting to start...

 

[pwkrueger]

The design and schedule for this station needs to coordinate with the design and schedule for the extension of Strander Blvd. across the tracks by the City of Tukwila and City of Renton. The situation is more complex than for most small stations.

 

[trainboyh16-44]

I had to look up which road Strander Boulevard is, but looking at it in google maps...could they not be completed separately of each other?

 

[MargaretSPfan]

I myself still cannot understand why Sounder
cannot make repairs to that temporary platform.
Down here, on the SF Peninsula, CalTrain has made
interim fixes to temporary platforms (in their case,
to eliminate "hold-outs" -- GCOR Rule 6.30).

 

[RailroadJeep]

I myself still cannot understand why Sounder
cannot make repairs to that temporary platform.
Down here, on the SF Peninsula, CalTrain has made
interim fixes to temporary platforms (in their case,
to eliminate "hold-outs" -- GCOR Rule 6.30).

When did Sound Transit say it wouldn't be fixed?

 

[markgillings]

I heard today that it was a Jordan spreader that did the damage. It was being moved NB to Interbay. One of its wings apparently was unsecured.

 

[NM_RailNut]

I had to look up which road Strander Boulevard is, but looking at it in google maps...could they not be completed separately of each other?

Logically speaking, yes. Unfortunately, logic rarely seems to be used where projects like this in the Seattle area are concerned (not that we're doin' much better here in the Land of Entrapment, 'cause we ain't...).