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The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (DSTT), also referred to as the Metro Bus Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) pair of public transit tunnels in Seattle, Washington, United States. The double-track tunnel and its four stations serve Link light rail trains on the 1 Line as it travels through Downtown Seattle.
The State Route 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, is a bored highway tunnel in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States.The 2-mile (3.2 km), double-decker tunnel carries a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north.
The tunnel portal includes ramps to and from nearby streets, including Dearborn Street, Alaskan Way, and a frontage road along the east side of the highway. [14] The tunnel travels 1.8 miles (2.9 km) under Downtown Seattle and carries SR 99 along the central waterfront, running roughly parallel to the former Alaskan Way Viaduct.
A Downtown Seattle bus stop on Pine Street with a sign for the Magic Carpet zone, 1975. For almost 40 years, until 2012, [22] most of downtown Seattle was designated as a zero-fare zone, an area in which all rides on Metro vehicles were free, known as the "Ride Free" Area. Intended to encourage transit usage, improve accessibility and encourage ...
The SR 99 Tunnel is a 2-mile (3.2 km) bored double-decker highway tunnel carrying a section of State Route 99 (SR 99) under Downtown Seattle from SoDo in the south to South Lake Union in the north. Since the 2001 Nisqually earthquake , the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has been the source of much political controversy demonstrating the ...
Metro Transit began planning a bus-based transit system through downtown Seattle in the 1970s, including a transit mall, tunnel, or bus terminal in the Westlake area. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Metro approved construction of a downtown bus tunnel in 1983, [ 21 ] selecting Pine Street and 4th Avenue as the site of one of the stations. [ 22 ]
This is a route-map template for the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, a Seattle rail tunnel.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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