The Platform

The new light rail tunnel under downtown Bellevue has reached Main Street, over 150 feet from where crews started in February. Here's a batch of recent photos from the jobsite as contractors continue their path under the city. Check out the East Link Extension Flickr page to view construction progress across the 14 mile project and sign up for East Link construction alerts to stay in the loop about all things East Link. Dual 54-inch ventilation pipes keep the air fresh inside the tunnel.  Looking south from inside the tunnel where trains will run under downtown Bellevue. A giant ...

ST Art maintenance guy must be a jack of all trades For Tim Marsden, Sound Transit art collection maintenance guy, the train stations, transit centers and subway tunnels of Puget Sound are all galleries under his watchful care.  As the person in charge of more than 100 art installations at bus and train stations and other Sound Transit facilities from Everett to Lakewood, Marsden is the chief caretaker of a collection of museum-quality work by nationally-renowned artists.  His official title is "Art Collection Specialist." That's a catchall for everything the Seattle artist juggles ...

East Link light rail employs cutting-edge technology to cross I-90 floating bridge As part of the East Link light rail extension, Sound Transit is doing something that’s never been done before – placing light rail on a floating bridge. To safely transition light rail vehicles from the I-90 land bridge to the floating bridge, engineers and designers had to consider a number of factors including six different ranges of motion from Lake Washington: up and down, back and forth and side to side. World-class solution put to the test To come up with a solution, Sound Transit designed ...