When community leader Nora Chan first spoke at last year’s Sound Transit (ST) meeting, she said, “I am doing this for the next generation, I won’t see the station built” in the Chinatown-International District (CID), implying her senior status.
Sound Transit approves north-south option — But questions of transparency linger
The smell of cologne and sweat rose from the packed rows in the Sound Transit (ST) board meeting yesterday.
Portland Chinatown vanishes—a foreshadow of the CID?
They had planned it down to the type of trees they would plant—Chinese Windmill Palms—so that the restaurant owners wouldn’t have to worry about patrons slipping on fallen leaves or flower petals in the winter.
COMMENTARY: Destroying the CID is not a justifiable when there is a better alternative
Sound Transit cannot let our treasured Chinatown International District (CID) become collateral damage for yet another regional infrastructure project, when there is a better alternative.
ST fails to deliver on final station placement — Postpones announcement for two weeks
Walking into the Sound Transit (ST) System Expansion Meeting (SEC) almost 10 minutes late, King County Councilmember Joe McDermott laid down a bag from McDonald’s and a drink.
COMMENTARY: Reader pushes for North and Sound Sound Transit design, over CID
After reading pages of Sound Transit study and reports, the superior choice for the transit construction to serve the Chinatown-International District (CID) is clearly the North and South (N&S) design.
Community shows splintering over ST’s new transit hub
Every time a speaker at a Sound Transit (ST) board meeting on Feb. 23 came out in favor of building a new transit hub on Fourth Avenue—along the rim of the CID—scores of senior citizens sitting in the audience held up their hands and waved their fingers back and forth, like leaves fluttering on branches.
EDITORIAL: Has the CID really recovered? — 40 years since the Wah Mee massacre
Forty years ago on Feb. 19, 1983, 13 people were shot to death at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown in what became known as the Wah Mee massacre—the worst mass murder in Seattle history.
CID encampment fire possibly caused by meth lab elements
A preliminary investigation of a fire in the Chinatown-International District (CID) reveals that it may have been caused by elements of a methamphetamine lab.
CID protesters wait in vain after Constantine interrupts comments
In a move that effectively emptied a packed boardroom of around 100 protesters from the Chinatown-International District (CID), King County Chief Executive Dow Constantine halted public comment after less than half of those signed up had given testimony at a Sound Transit (ST) board meeting on Jan. 26.