Some people just love trains and we are into that! All hail light rail, Seattle, and keep moving forward. We’re so proud of the peeps that showed up at 4:41am to take the first ride on October 2nd. Seattle has lagged behind in mass transit for decades but is finally catching up. The well-lit walkway is separated from the main area of the garage and directional signs point the way to the main terminal skybridge. The covered, level walkway to the airport terminal is one level down on the mezzanine. This makes such a huge difference to so many people in Seattle, but it also gives more transit access to homeowners at Nora and Winston. Link light rail trains arrive and depart on the platform level of the station. A pedestrian bridge over I-5 near the Northgate Station also opened on Saturday and allows access over the freeway to the area around North Seattle College. Northgate’s light rail station features several nearby parking lots, which allow people to drive to the location and then take the train to popular destinations, including Husky Stadium, Lumen Field, and the core of downtown Seattle. Sound Transit’s preferred alignment for the next phase of light rail in Seattle includes a Westlake Station that is 135 feet deep, a Midtown Station that is 140 feet deep, a South Lake Union Station that is 120 feet deep, and a Delridge Station platform that is 85 feet in the air. Three new Link light rail stations on Sound Transit’s 1 Line arrive in the U-District, Roosevelt, & Northgate neighborhoods on October 2. ![]() Trains will run every 8 minutes at peak hours, and people can expect to get from Northgate to Sea-Tac Airport in 45 minutes. East Link is a voter-approved project to expand light rail from downtown Seattle to the Eastside with stations serving Mercer Island, south Bellevue. Three new stations in the University District, Roosevelt, and the Northgate neighborhoods now allow people to get downtown in less than 15 minutes. Three conveniently located stations connect Seattle Southside to Seattle’s popular attractions. They’ve been under construction since 2012 and some of us have been around long enough to remember this. Seattle has had the Sound Transit Link light rail line for about nine years now, and sometimes it still feels brand-newpartially because of the 2016 extension to the University of Washington. We’re so excited about the newest stations in Seattle.
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