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1. What Pierce County and South King County priorities are reflected in the package?
2. What solutions are planned for parking shortages and other challenges for accessing Sounder stations?

1. What Pierce County and South King County priorities are reflected in the package?
   • The package increases Sounder commuter rail service in the south corridor with four new round-trips per day and longer trains – a 65 percent increase in capacity on this fastest-growing commuter rail corridor in the nation.
   • ST Express bus service will increase by 10 percent.
   • The package will significantly improve the Sounder facilities in Tacoma, Puyallup and Sumner, where parking is over capacity, by funding a mix of access improvements including more parking and projects focused on pedestrian, bike and bus connections.
   • The package provides partnership funding for an extension of the popular Tacoma Link light rail line.
   • The package gets light rail to north Federal Way, paid for by south King County taxes. That positions light rail to expand to Pierce County in the next phase.
2. What solutions are planned for parking shortages and other challenges for accessing Sounder stations?

   • Along with Sounder service expansions will be money for expanded access to Sounder stations all along the south line.
   • That could include additional parking, bus connections, passenger drop-off space, walking or biking access or combinations of all of these things. System access improvements for each station will be determined in cooperation with local jurisdictions to ensure that expanded access benefits both commuters and the surrounding community.