ST/Ground broken on Northgate LINK LRT extension Options

[KevinKorell]

Sound Transit website 8/17/12:

Community members joined Sound Transit officials and partners today to kick off construction of the biggest Sound Transit 2 construction project to date: the 4.3-mile Northgate Link light rail extension from Husky Stadium to stations serving the U District, Roosevelt and Northgate.

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[KevinKorell]

Progressive Railroading, 8/20/12:

Sound Transit breaks ground on Northgate light-rail extension

Seattle-area community members and government officials gathered on Friday to officially kick off construction on Sound Transit 2’s biggest project to date: the 4.3-mile Northgate Link light-rail extension.

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[EvergreenRailfan]

Great News. I could have used this a couple weeks ago. I was going to my nephew's birthday dinner, and they had it a resteraunt in Northgate, and not enough room in my brother's car, so I took the bus and train. Got lucky with a bus coming near our house, transfered to LINK at Columbia City, and the 41 bus at International District Station. Beat them there.

The 41-Northgate/Lake City bus has an advantage right now, during rush hour, provided it's with the flow of traffic, the I-5 Express lanes. The rest have an HOV lane on the left shoulder of the highway, but not all of the direct access ramps are in Seattle.

[KevinKorell]

Seattle, WA Post-Intelligencer, 8/17/12:

Party like it's 2021 for Northgate light rail

Light rail to Northgate still is nine years away, but Sound Transit invites the community to a groundbreaking ceremony Friday afternoon for the 4.3-mile transit project.

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[Lightning]

Here's an interesting map showing the complete route between the University of Washington station through to Northgate. So there will be in essence a subway upon leaving the Chinatown/International District station in lower downtown Seattle all the way to just before Northgate. I of course don't know for sure, but I might doubt that any modern American "light rail" system--versus something "built" as a subway--would have a longer length of underground trackage. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[EvergreenRailfan]

I forgot that the Northgate extension would be underground as well. It combined with the existing tunnel,will be a long one.