Sound Transit Gives Construction Update on 4 Light Rail Projects

Written by Jennifer McLawhorn, Managing Editor
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Marymoor Village Station on 2 Line.
Courtesy of Sound Transit

SEATTLE - Sound Transit gives an update on four different light rail projects across its network.

According to the release, in the last 12 months, three Link extensions have opened. Between September 2023 and August 2024, extensions “between T Line service to Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood, the 2 Line launching in Bellevue and Redmond, and 1 Line extending to Snohomish County” saw the number of stations grow by 76%. In the future, Sound Transit says four more Link projects will take place in 2025 and 2026. What follows below is a collection of videos and images of Sound Transit’s work across its light rail system.

2 Line Service to Downtown Redmond

Coming Spring 2025. Courtesy of Sound Transit via YouTube
The Downtown Redmond Station platform.
The future eastern terminus of the 2 Line.

2 Line Service Across Lake Washington

Workers prepare forms and place concrete for light rail track plinths on I-90.

1 Line Service to Federal Way

Crews designed the bridge to solve for unstable soil conditions.
8 miles will be added to Sound Transit’s light rail system between SeaTac and Federal Way.
Curved, elevated tracks that come into Federal Way Downtown Station.

North Seattle

Artwork: “Dinhi Kami (Here we are)” from Robson Regarde Bustillo
Crews at work at the 130th Street Infill Station.
Crews work on a concrete wall of the future elevated station.
Construction is taking place beneath 130th Street Infill Station.
Aerial shot of 130th Street Infill Station, located in Pinehurst.
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