What Can I Do?

Here is a sample script. Remember, BE POLITE! It’s likely some poor intern answering the call.

Join our phone-a-thon on May 19th.

• King County Executive: Girmay Zahilay (206-263-9600)
• Mayor Katie Wilson (206-684-4000)

Additionally you can call council members:

• Teresa Mosqueda: (206) 477-1008
• Steffanie Fain: (206) 477-1005

We encourage you to adjust this to be in your own voice, and add personal anecdotes about what light rail would mean to you, but make sure whatever you say is polite, constructive, and inviting.

Hi, my name is ____ and I’m calling to ask [Mayor Wilson, Executive Zahilay, Councilmember Mosqueda, Councilmember Fain] to vote no on the ST3 system plan update resolution currently under consideration by the Sound Transit Board. We need to save rail to Ballard, build the Graham Street station and Boeing Access Road station, and ensure we build rail to West Seattle and the rest of the region. This resolution doesn’t do that. Please tell the [mayor, executive, councilmember] to vote no unless we get dates for passenger service to Market Street in Ballard, Graham Street, and Boeing Access Road. Thank you!

Email meetingcomments@soundtransit.org with a written public comment. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy–you are voicing how you feel.

Here is a sample public comment:

Hello,

On May 28, 2026, you will be voting on a proposal that is unacceptable without a date to Ballard. Despite there not being any legal requirement, you are choosing to jam through this proposal and effectively ‘cut’ lines. You don’t need to pass this proposal to break ground in West Seattle.

I want you to honor the commitments made when the ST3 project was approved by voters in 2016. We were promised light rail to Market St in 2035. Then 2036. Then 2039. Then 2046. And now we have no date for Ballard’s light rail completion. Indefinitely delaying rail to Ballard violates a promise made to voters, and makes it unlikely we’ll ever see it built in our lifetime.

Instead we are told the Ballard link extension will be built to Seattle Center. That’s not even close to Ballard. Close enough is not good enough.

We want you to look for creative, ambitious approaches to rein in skyrocketing construction costs and raise new revenue.

Nobody is giving Sound Transit kudos for considering opening lines and stations 40 to 50 years after they were approved. It makes the agency look incompetent.

Board members, vote no to this proposal.

You can attend via Zoom or come in person to the Ruth Fisher Board Room at the Union Center.

Seattle Subway has been helping us advocate for Ballard Rail. They are a non-profit so all donations help. Plus they have some pretty cool shirts.

If you want to canvas with us, feel free to join in.

Here’s a script for what you can say while canvassing

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Email us your ideas at saveballardrail@gmail.com