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Lawsuit claims Port of Seattle’s purchase of Eastside rail

The plaintiffs say port officials overstepped their authority by purchasing the 42-mile Eastside rail corridor and misused port tax money to buy it from BNSF Railway Company.

In a response to the lawsuit filed in court, the Port’s lawyers said the acquisition was “fully within the Port of Seattle authority.”

The Eastside rail corridor

The plaintiffs say port officials overstepped their

The Port’s lawyers say it “preserves a substantial and irreplaceable asset that will allow the Port of Seattle and other regional partners to address the region’s growing transportation needs, provides a necessary link to an interstate railroad system, and provides an essential alternative transportation corridor in case of a natural or manmade disaster.”

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer