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The station was named "University of Washington" in 2012, leading to confusion with the existing University Street station in Downtown Seattle and the future U District station that would open west of the campus in 2021. [39] [40] Other suggested names included Montlake, Husky Stadium, and UW Medical Center. [41]
It sits at the southeast corner of campus, between Montlake Boulevard Northeast and Union Bay, just north of the Montlake Cut. The stadium is served by the University of Washington Link light rail station, which provides rail service to downtown, Rainier Valley and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. It is also accessible by several bus routes.
from the Washington Park Arboretum west to Portage Bay/15th Avenue E., from the Montlake Cut in the north to Interlaken Park at its south end, Seattle, Washington Coordinates 47°38′28″N 122°18′14″W / 47.641°N 122.304°W / 47.641; -122
In Montlake, the highway intersects Montlake Boulevard and Lake Washington Boulevard just south of the University of Washington campus and Husky Stadium. [4] The freeway gains a set of HOV lanes and continues east on a pair of causeways through the marshlands of Union Bay and Foster Island, at the north end of the Washington Park Arboretum. [5] [6]
The path along the cut was designated a National Recreation Trail as Montlake Cut National Waterside in 1971. [1] The cut provides a connection between Union Bay, part of Lake Washington, to the east and Portage Bay, an arm of Lake Union, to the west. It is spanned by the Montlake Bridge, a bascule drawbridge carrying Montlake Boulevard (State ...
The main campus is bounded on the west by 15th Avenue N.E., on the north by N.E. 45th Street, on the east by Montlake Boulevard N.E., and on the south by N.E. Pacific Street. East Campus stretches east of Montlake Boulevard to Laurelhurst and is largely taken up by wetlands and sports fields.
The tunnel passes 15 feet (4.6 m) under the Montlake Cut while climbing a 4.5% grade to end at University of Washington station near Husky Stadium. [26] [27] [28] Sound Transit originally estimated that the trip between Westlake and the University of Washington would take 8 minutes, [29] but later refined it to a scheduled 6 minutes. [30]
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