Sound Transit, amidst the nation's largest light rail expansion, has put its sights on a preferred route with station locations for a 9.7-mile Tacoma Dome Extension while announcing the general contractor for the upcoming Downtown Redmond Link Extension.
Sound Transit's Blue Line trains won't travel across Interstate 90 from Seattle to Bellevue until 2023, but the effort to engineer how light rail will make the trip across a floating bridge — for the first time ever, anywhere — has been ongoing for years.
The first 300 ft of Sound Transit light rail track is now laid for the 2.4-mile light rail extension through Tacoma's Stadium District and Hilltop neighborhood.
As Sound Transit moves closer to building the 7.8-mile-long Federal Way Link Extension light rail project, the selection of Kiewit Infrastructure West Company to design and build the project marks a major milestone.
A nearly $1.2-billion grant from the Federal Transit Administration to the
Seattle-area Sound Transit agency marks the largest transit grant since Donald Trump became president.