The Platform

Regional media visited the East Link project this week to see the mining operations beneath downtown Bellevue where light rail trains will run in 2023. The mining is going well with about 700 feet of the 2000-foot long tunnel complete. Here's some fresh pictures from the show-and-tell. Light rail travel time from here to downtown Seattle will take twenty minutes. Check out the main East Link project page for more details. Here's the "heading" of the tunnel about 700 feet from its entrance and about 25 feet beneath Northeast 110th Avenue in downtown Bellevue. This truck hauls away dirt as ...

Special to The Platform by Tim Marsden, Sound Transit Art Maintenance Specialist (and all-around good guy) The Sound Transit Art Program would like to announce the return of Carl Smool’s artwork "Common Threads" to the Beacon Hill Station plaza after a three year hiatus. The three Banner Poles were removed in early 2014 due to damage to the foundation of one of the poles that occurred during an unusually severe wind storm. The final pole as part of the "Common Threads" installation at Beacon Hill is carefully lowered into place. Since then Sound Transit has worked with the artist ...

Sound Transit has expanded its busker program from a pilot project at the University of Washington and Capitol Hill Link light rail stations to include Beacon Hill, Mount Baker, Columbia City, Othello, Tukwila International Boulevard and Angle Lake. Busker is an English term for street performers who play for free and/or donations.  During the pilot, buskers—who are often professionals, teachers and students—told Sound Transit they’d like more opportunities to perform and entertain at transit stations. According to an online survey, many transit riders find buskers a welcome ...