And more transit news as the new year begins: When Sound Transit reps visited West Seattle twice recently for updates on light-rail planning, they mentioned that an “elected leadership” group would be convened to focus on the West Seattle (2030) to Ballard (2035) line. Toward the end of this morning’s Seattle City Council meeting, Councilmember Mike O’Brien mentioned that group would meet for the first time this Thursday – so we asked Sound Transit for details. Here’s the agenda – the meeting, including City Councilmembers and ST Board members, is set for 2-4 pm Thursday at Union Station downtown, and is open to the public. (added) Here are the members:

 Representing the project corridor:

o Seattle Councilmember Lisa Herbold

o Seattle Councilmember Bruce Harrell

o Seattle Councilmember Sally Bagshaw

o Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien

o Seattle Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez

o Port Commissioner Stephanie Bowman  Representing Sound Transit

o Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers

o Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan

o King County Executive Dow Constantine

o Seattle Councilmember Rob Johnson

o King County Councilmember Joe McDermott

One agenda item involves appointments of all but five members of another group that’ll be involved, the Stakeholder Advisory Group. Here are links to all the meeting-related documents, including directions to the location.

P.S. 11 of the members to be appointed to the stakeholder group are listed on the last page here.