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Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit providers, and consists of three non-connected lines: the 1 Line (formerly Central Link) in King County and Snohomish County, which travels for 33 miles (53 km) between Lynnwood, Seattle, and Seattle–Tacoma ...
It consists of 43 stations on three unconnected light rail lines in King and Pierce counties: the 1 Line from Seattle to SeaTac; the 2 Line from Bellevue to Redmond; and the T Line in Tacoma. [1] [2] The first Link segment began service on August 23, 2003, with the opening of five stations on the 1.6-mile-long (2.6 km) Tacoma Link (now the T ...
SeaTac/Airport station would serve as the southern terminus of the Link light rail system until the opening of Angle Lake station on September 24, 2016. [ 60 ] On January 28, 2017, amid protests at Sea-Tac Airport against the signing of an executive order from President Donald Trump , the station was shut down by Sound Transit at the request of ...
Following the failed Forward Thrust initiatives, Metro Transit was created in 1972 to oversee a countywide bus network, and plan for a future rail system. [14] In the early 1980s, Metro Transit and the Puget Sound Council of Governments (PSCOG) explored light rail and busway concepts to serve the region, [15] ultimately choosing to build a downtown transit tunnel that would be convertible from ...
The region's first commuter rail line, between Tacoma and Seattle, started in December 2000; the agency's first light rail line, Tacoma Link (now the T Line), began service in August 2003. Light rail service in Seattle on Central Link (now the 1 Line) began in 2009, and is the largest part of the Sound Transit system in terms of ridership.
The $3.9 billion light rail project, named "East Link", would be part of the next regional transit ballot measure and run from Seattle to Bellevue, the Microsoft campus, and downtown Redmond. [45] A 15-mile (24 km) segment of East Link was included as part of 50 miles (80 km) of light rail in the $47 billion Roads and Transit package, which ...
Don’t erase Tacoma from our region’s airport. Tacoma is a great American city, and our airport should retain the name of the City of Destiny. Seattle-Tacoma International. SeaTac. Not “S-E-A.”
The light rail system, called Link light rail, includes the initial 15.7-mile (25.3 km) from downtown Seattle to Sea-Tac Airport, which began service in 2009. Extension to the University of Washington via the University Link tunnel and Angle Lake station began service in 2016; they were followed by the Northgate Link Extension in 2021.