The Urbanist's Tuesday Talk with Sound Transit's Julie Timm

Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm was our guest for The Urbanist's monthly talk series. Timm took the reins in September after coming out on top in a national CEO search to replace Peter Rogoff. She left her post as CEO of Greater Richmond Transit Company in Virginia to take the top job at Sound Transit.

The discussion features a wide range of topics facing Seattle's light rail, from the issues with escalators to the order of stations opening. Timm provides a very frank observation many of the high visibility problems faced by the system. Given the size and complexity of this moving, well used system, it is not about avoiding outages, "the question is how are you going to minimize it."

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