The Platform

We’re live under Beacon Hill! Contractors have finished installing and testing new antennas in the Beacon Hill tunnels and underground station to provide cell service for our riders. With Beacon Hill on line, you are now free to browse, text and stream along the entire Link light rail line. Cell service launched in the tunnels from downtown to the University of Washington in late 2016 and in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel last year. Besides recreational use, the cell service gives riders at the Beacon Hill platform another way to stay informed with rider alerts and the Sound ...

Like many of you, we’ve been watching the weather and listening to the kids complain about it being soooo hot. Compared to our usual June gloom, it’s hot out there. (But kids who live where it’s grey for nine months out of the year shouldn’t complain about a little sun. But they were born here and don’t know any better.) Anyway, what better way to cool off than to take an air-conditioned train to your local pond, lake, pool or spray park? You can reach a lot of refreshing cold water from Link light rail. Here's a few of our favorite spots.  Click on the maps below for ...

Our latest in an onging series of what goes into building massive infrastructure projects takes us underneath the University of Washington campus to see crews pouring concrete for the new light rail track bed. This is hard, dirty work under cramped conditions that gets done by hand. It's just a fraction of the more than three million hours of labor that have gone into the Northgate Link project so far. Northgate Link Overview To recap, the Northgate extension is 4.3-miles long and includes new stations in the U District, Roosevelt and Northgate neighborhoods to connect with existing ...