A Common Roadblock Delays Two of Seattle's Biggest Projects

Death, taxes, and municipal project delays.

Despite months of little downtown traffic to stymie progress, it seems we couldn’t shake that last Old Normal certainty.

The Seattle Times recently broke the news that completion of both the Eastside light rail extension and Waterfront Park have been pushed back—East Link potentially to 2024, the Waterfront to 2025. And officials are citing the same roadblock for both.

A scoop from the local paper of record late last month revealed that, along with construction miscues, a strike by concrete truck drivers that ended in early April will postpone light rail to suburbia until as late as February 2024 (an official said that

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