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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014
Vol. CXXIV, No. 25
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices
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Sound Transit schedules open house for Tacoma Trestle replacement project Images Courtesy Sound Transit Sound Transit will host an open house next week to discuss a project that will replace the existing Tacoma Trestle, which is located east of Freighthouse Square in the Dome District, as part of an effort to increase capacity and improve reliability for additional Sounder commuter rail passenger trips. According to Sound Transit officials, the Tacoma Trestle project was approved by voters in 2008 as part of the Sound Transit 2 system expansion plan. Sound Transit is replacing the 100-year-old wooden single track railroad trestle with a modern, double-track bridge. The new bridge aims to provide increased capacity and improved reliability for additional Sounder and Amtrak passenger trips, as well as Tacoma Rail freight movements. The Tacoma Trestle project includes demolition and removal of the existing 0.65-mile single-track bridge and trestle; construction of a new double-track rail bridge and crossover tracks; upgrades to the embankment along the trestle; upgrades to the railroad signals; minor street reconstruction and utility relocations; and a study of the feasibility of building an extended passenger platform. Sound Transit expects to complete the final design next year, begin construction in 2016, and complete the project in 2017. Last month, the City of Tacoma agreed to sell a 1.2-mile stretch of City-owned railroad (including the Tacoma Trestle) to Sound Transit for $4 million and
Sound Transit plans to replace the 100-yearold wooden single track railroad trestle east of Freighthouse Square with a modern, doubletrack bridge. The new bridge aims to provide increased capacity and improved reliability for additional Sounder and Amtrak passenger trips, as well as Tacoma Rail freight movements. approximately 1.2 acres of Sound Transit-owned property near the intersection of Pacific Avenue and South 26th Street. The Tacoma Trestle Project open house will be held on Thurs., Feb. 13, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at 323 Puyallup Ave. (the former Durobilt Building), in the Dome District. Attendees will learn more about the need for a new trestle, conceptual elements associated with the new structure, as well as the installation of new equipment for improving safety on Sound Transit's railroad right-of-way. More information is available online at soundtransit.org
Downtown Tacoma's frozen Frost Park
Frigid temperatures in the region have taken their toll on the fountain at Frost Park in downtown Tacoma. On Thursday morning, Tacoma Daily Index editor Todd Matthews shot this photograph of the park's typicallycascading waterfall now locked in ice due to low temperatures dipping into the teens this week. The City-owned park, located at the corner of South Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue, is named after fallen Tacoma police officer Larry Frost, who was 29 years old when he was shot and killed on Sept. 9, 1977. In recent years, a group of local artists has gathered on Fridays at noon for friendly chalk art competitions.
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