Req.#13056
O"INANCE NO. 2 8 0 @'-?, 2
1 AN ORDINANCE relating to the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit
2 Authority; authorizing the execution of the First Amended Right of Use
Agreement for the use of the public right-of-way by the Sound Transit
3 LINK Passenger Rail System.
4 WHEREAS, in April 2001, the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit
5 Authority ("Sound Transit") accepted the terms and conditions of a Right of Use
6 Agreement pursuant to Ordinance No. 26749, passed January 2, 2001,
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authorizing Sound Transit to construct, operate, and own a passenger rail
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9 system in, upon, and along the public right-of-way of the City, and
10 WHEREAS said Right of Use Agreement sets forth in general the terms
11 and conditions by which the parties will construct and operate the Sound
12 Transit LINK Passenger Rail System, and
13 WHEREAS the First Amended Right of Use Agreement ("Agreement")
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provides for the addition of a City-owned LINK staflon called the "Commerce
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Street Station," and
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17 WHEREAS in recognition of the addition of the Commerce Street Station
18 the Agreement provides for liability and indemnification for both Sound Transit
19 and the City, establishes a five-year review of the Agreement, and changes the
20 1 0-minute train headways to 12-minute headways because of the extra time
21 needed to serve the new Commerce Street Station, and
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WHEREAS, on September 28, 201 1, the propos...
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