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Sand Point Airfield was the endpoint of the first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924. The historic flight helped convince Congress to develop Sand Point as a naval air station. [1] The station ceased operations in 1970. [2
SR 513 continues past University Village before it turns northeast onto Sand Point Way and ends at the entrance to Magnuson Park in the Sand Point neighborhood. SR 513 was created during the 1964 state highway renumbering as the successor to Secondary State Highway 1J (SSH 1J), itself created in 1937 and traveling from Downtown Seattle to Lake ...
The northern approach to Downtown Seattle was opened the following August to coincide with the completion of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and SR 520. [95] A 20-mile (32 km) section of the freeway traveling from North Seattle to southern Snohomish County and Everett was opened to traffic on February 3, 1965. [ 96 ]
King County Metro operates six routes from Roosevelt station with connections to the University District, Greenwood, Fremont, Lake City, Sand Point, Northgate, South Lake Union, and Downtown Seattle. [61] Sound Transit Express route 522, serving the State Route 522 corridor through Kenmore, Bothell, and Woodinville, terminates at the station. [5]
The Port of Seattle, a government agency that operates the airport, studied a rapid transit system between downtown and the airport in the 1960s, but took no further action. [ 11 ] After the 1962 World's Fair and introduction of the Seattle Center Monorail , a proposal was drawn up by fair organizers to extend the system to the airport. [ 12 ]
Two alignments for the floating bridge were considered in the late 1950s: a Sand Point–Kirkland, favored by the City of Seattle; and an Evergreen Point crossing, favored by the state government and the U.S. Navy, which operated Naval Air Station Sand Point. [34]
A small hill on Sand Point within Magnuson Park, with a view of Lake Washington on three sides Lake Washington viewed from the shore on Sand Point. Sand Point is a peninsula that juts into Lake Washington from north Seattle, Washington, United States. It is occupied mostly by Magnuson Park and is the namesake of the Sand Point neighborhood to ...