Sound Transit Driving Consensus Against All Odds Compromise on this scale should be impossible; fortunately, no one told the project team. By Arthur Schurr, contributor T 28 | Mass Transit | MassTransitmag.com | MARCH 2022 he Sound Transit Operations and Maintenance Facility East (OMF East) is unique in many ways, but one really stands out. Yes, it will be a state-of-the-art facility that will transform Sound Transit, the city of Bellevue, Wash., and several significant stakeholders. That's the future. But it's already done something quite unusual even in today's NIMBY*-plagued world. It somehow managed to completely unite and galvanize a powerful and disparate opposition against the project almost instantly. " A [Bellevue] city council member who later became a county council member said, 'I have to note that this project receivedhttp://www.MassTransitmag.com