Downtown Redmond | ||||||||||||||||
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| Link light rail station | ||||||||||||||||
 Under construction in March 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location |
Redmond, Washington United States | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°40′20″N 122°07′13″W / 47.67224°N 122.120156°W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Sound Transit | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opening | 2025 | |||||||||||||||
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Downtown Redmond station is a future Link light rail station on the north side of Redmond Town Center shopping mall in downtown Redmond, Washington. It will be elevated located along Cleveland Street ( SR 202) between 164th and 166th avenues. [1] [2]
The station was originally included in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure in 2008, but was left out of the East Link Extension after a funding shortfall stemming from the City of Bellevue's desire for a tunneled alignment under Downtown Bellevue. [3] Sound Transit instead completed environmental reviews and selected a preferred alignment to Downtown Redmond, indefinitely deferring the final segment of East Link until a later date. [4] The Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, passed in 2016, includes $1.1 billion in funding for the two stations in Downtown Redmond, which was planned to open by 2024. [5] Preliminary engineering on the Redmond extension was approved in February 2016, after being suspended in 2010. [6]
The station is planned to open in 2025. [7]
References
- ^ "Executive Summary". East Link Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (PDF) (Report). Sound Transit. July 2011. p. ES-51. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ^ "Downtown Redmond Station". Sound Transit. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
- ^ Lindblom, Mike (May 4, 2009). "Bellevue eyes Sound Transit train tunnel; Microsoft wants surface route". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ^ "Sound Transit Board identifies preferred East Link light rail route" (Press release). Sound Transit. May 14, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
- ^ Demay, Daniel (June 2, 2016). "Sound Transit approves faster timeline for next phases of light rail". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ "Sound Transit advances engineering for Federal Way, Redmond light rail extensions" (Press release). Sound Transit. February 25, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
- ^ Belman, Brooke (August 24, 2023). "Get ready for new Link service on the Eastside next spring". The Platform. Sound Transit. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
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