Seattle (Washington) - 740,000 inh. (3.7 mil. in metropolitan area)

Light Rail

For the light rail line, the existing 2.2 km Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel was retrofitted; after the tunnel had reopened for buses in September 2007, it was jointly used by both light rail trains and buses until March 2019, but is now exclusively used by trains.

~94 km:
18 July 2009: Westlake — Tukwila International Boulevard (22.2 km)
19 Dec 2009: Tukwila International Boulevard — Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (2.7 km)
19 Mar 2016: Westlake — University of Washington (5 km underground northern extension, with an intermediate station at Capitol Hill)
24 Sept 2016: SeaTac/Airport — Angle Lake (2.5 km, elevated)
02 Oct 2021: University of Washington — Northgate (6.9 km mostly underground extension, featuring two underground stations at U District and Roosevelt; introduction of line numbers and colours).
27 Apr 2024: South Bellevue — Redmond Technology (introducing line 2 on an initial 10.6 km segment of 'East Link')
30 Aug 2024: Northgate — Lynnwood City Center (13.6 km)
10 May 2025: Redmond Technology — Downtown Redmond (5.4 km)
06 Dec 2025: Angle Lake — Federal Way Downtown (12.5 km)
28 Mar 2026: International District/Chinatown — South Bellvue (12.8 km, featuring floating bridge across Lake Washington)
30 Sept 2026: + Pinehurst

"South Lake Union Streetcar" in downtown Seattle

- opened 2007
- 2.1 km
- 7 stops

"First Hill Line":

- opened 23 Jan 2016
- 4.2 km
- 10 stops

SoundTransit (Official Website) incl. Projects

Seattle.gov - Getting Around Seattle

Seattle Monorail (Official Website)

Seattle Light Rail at Wikipedia

Seattle Streetcar at Wikipedia

Seattle Monorail at Wikipedia

Seattle Transit Blog

Read your webmaster's personal impressions of the various Seattle rail systems (July 2012)

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