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What's behind the Sound Transit costs overrun?

Light rail runs on the surface in Seattle's Rainier Valley.
KUOW Photo/Joshua McNichols
Light rail runs on the surface in Seattle's Rainier Valley.

Bill Radke speaks with Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom about the cost overruns of the original Sound Transit plan to build light rail in Seattle that passed in 1996. 

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