![]() ![]() These extensions would add an additional 30 miles (48 km) to the light rail network, carrying an estimated 280,000 daily riders by 2030. Īs of 2022, Sound Transit is building five extensions of the Link network that will open between 20 with 25 stations: the Hilltop Extension of the T Line, opening in 2023 with six stations the 2 Line with ten stations from Seattle to Bellevue and Redmond on the Eastside, scheduled to open in 2024 the Lynnwood extension of the 1 Line and 2 Line, with four stations opening in 2024 the Federal Way extension of the 1 Line, scheduled to open in 2025 with three stations and the Downtown Redmond extension of the 2 Line, with two stations opening in 2025. A northern extension to Northgate station with three stations opened on October 2, 2021. The 1 Line was extended north 3.15 miles (5.07 km) to the University of Washington on March 19, 2016, and 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south to Angle Lake station on September 24, 2016. The first infill station of the Link system was Commerce Street/South 11th Street station on the T Line, which opened on September 15, 2011. The initial, 14-mile-long (23 km) segment of Central Link (now the 1 Line) with 12 stations was opened from Seattle to Tukwila on July 18, 2009, and was later extended 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport on December 19, 2009. 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 Line). The busiest station by daily ridership is Westlake station in Seattle, while the least busy is Convention Center/South 15th Street station in Tacoma. The two lines had a combined average weekday ridership of 82,783 and total ridership of 26 million in 2019, placing it seventh among the busiest light rail systems in the United States. Link stations are located within four cities in King and Pierce counties: fourteen in Seattle, five in Tacoma, two in SeaTac and one in Tukwila. ![]() ![]() The network consists of 25 stations on two unconnected lines: nineteen on the 1 Line and six on the T Line in Tacoma. Link is a light rail system serving the Seattle metropolitan area and operated by Sound Transit. A map of stations on the 1 Line, which runs between Angle Lake and Northgate in the Seattle area.
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