Sound Transit Board seeks public input on managing revenue impacts, program realignment for future voter-approved projects Posted: April 13, 2021 24 Through April 30, regional residents are encouraged to provide input to the Sound Transit Board of Directors on priorities for managing what the agency called “an unprecedented financial environment in its work to advance voter-approved transit projects that are not already under construction.” Sound Transit said it faces two major, simultaneous challenges. A pandemic-driven recession has severely reduced consumer spending and agency tax revenues at the same time that real estate and construction market pressures continue to drive project estimates to levels significantly beyond previous assumptions. As a result, the agency faces a currently projected $11.5 billion “affordability gap” to complete the full expansion program as originally planned through the Sound Transit 3 ballot measure approved by voters.