Peter Rogoff led Sound Transit through its golden age of expansion, but his six and a half years at the top were also fraught with controversy — and even tragedy. When Rogoff took over, light rail only extended from downtown Seattle to the airport. The Sound Transit Board was hustling to finish ST-2 and create a new $54-billion expansion plan in ST-3. Rogoff was charged with finalizing that plan and selling it to voters in King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties.
But his agency was blamed for the fatal Amtrak train crash that killed three and injured 57 others. He nearly lost his job in 2018 when allegations of a hostile work environment surfaced from staff. He ended up going to counseling to ease his rough people skills. That said, Rogoff told the board last week that this has been his best assignment. “I had a bunch of highfalutin federal jobs in D.C. before Dina and I moved here, but serving as the Sound Transit CEO has, by far, been the most challenging but also the most rewarding experience of my career,” he said.
And he looks back on overseeing the largest transit expansion in America with pride. “We as staff knew we were setting ourselves on an ambitious path, but in the years that followed 2016, as we sought to both complete ST-2 and launch the fullness of ST-3, we came to understand that our plans weren’t just ambitious, but they, in fact, were a little bit audacious,” he said.
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