SEATTLE (AP) — The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit seeking to keep Sound Transit’s light-rail off Interstate 90.
The Seattle Times says a hearing on the case is scheduled for Thursday.
In 2008, voters approved the light-rail route across Lake Washington via the I-90 bridge. It would be part of a three-line, $18 billion transit-expansion.
Developer Kemper Freeman and other opponents argue the plan violates the state constitution. Opponents say trains are not a “highway use” under the 18th Amendment, which directs the gas tax to state roads.
Backers of the light-rail expansion say a 2004 amendment gives light rail as an option. The plan is to turn the bridge’s express lanes over to light-rail.
