By Tracy Record

West Seattle Blog editor

The event that brought a standing-room-only crowd to Youngstown Cultural Arts Center ‘s Thelma Dewitty Theater tonight was announced as a “light-rail visioning forum,” but “floating forum” would have been more accurate: At the heart of it were Sound Transit managers floating their most promising options for getting West Seattle light rail cost back in an affordable range.

The biggest potential changes: “Phasing” West Seattle light rail – build between SODO and Delridge first, extend to The Junction sometime later – or dropping the Avalon station entirely. The latter has already been more extensively discussed than the former, and the way that ST’s Brad Owen and Jason Hampton discussed it, it sounded almost like a done deal.

Nothing,

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