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.