The extensions to Northgate (October 2021) and Mercer Island, Bellevue and Overlake (2023) are under construction. We’re about to see our whole region connected by light rail. Integrated buses and trains are the future! These two lines will mean trains run as often as every four minutes at shared stations. In 2023, trains from the Eastside and from SeaTac will both continue through downtown Seattle all the way to Northgate. When the Northgate extension opens in October 2021, Sound Transit will operate longer four-car trains. As part of that project, Sound Transit built track connections that will allow trains from the Eastside to travel into downtown Seattle and on to Northgate. That work was called Connect 2020 and it finished on schedule. Just south of International District/Chinatown Station, Sound Transit is preparing to expand light rail to the Eastside in 2023. Link light rail construction at Northgate. The Washington State Convention Center Addition project (want to more know more? Follow on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates or check out the latest construction updates).

To continue preparing downtown tunnel stations for Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail expansion to the Eastside in 2023.

There are two reasons that caused the buses to move permanently to the surface on March 23, 2019: This big change was in Chapter Two of the Seattle Squeeze, with downtown bus riders finding their bus stops in new locations, and a new bus-only lane on 6 th Avenue. On March 23, 2019, those buses moved permanently to downtown streets as a key step in the transition to light-rail-only in the tunnel.

Do you remember when there used to be buses and LINK light rail in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel?

Light link rail