Downtown Redmond station explained

Downtown Redmond
Style:Sound Transit
Type:Link light rail station
Borough:Redmond, Washington
Country:United States
Coordinates:47.6722°N -122.1202°W
Owned:Sound Transit
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Structure:Elevated
Accessible:Yes
Opening:2025
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-light
Zoom:15

Downtown Redmond station is a future Link light rail station on the north side of Redmond Town Center shopping mall in downtown Redmond, Washington. It will be elevated located along Cleveland Street (SR 202) between 164th and 166th avenues.[1] [2]

The station was originally included in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure in 2008, but was left out of the East Link Extension after a funding shortfall stemming from the City of Bellevue's desire for a tunneled alignment under Downtown Bellevue.[3] Sound Transit instead completed environmental reviews and selected a preferred alignment to Downtown Redmond, indefinitely deferring the final segment of East Link until a later date.[4] The Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, passed in 2016, includes $1.1 billion in funding for the two stations in Downtown Redmond, which was planned to open by 2024.[5] Preliminary engineering on the Redmond extension was approved in February 2016, after being suspended in 2010.[6]

The station is planned to open in 2025.[7]

Notes and References

  1. July 2011 . East Link Project Final Environmental Impact Statement . Executive Summary . ES-51 . . May 3, 2016.
  2. Web site: Downtown Redmond Station . Sound Transit . September 27, 2021.
  3. News: Lindblom . Mike . May 4, 2009 . Bellevue eyes Sound Transit train tunnel; Microsoft wants surface route . . May 3, 2016.
  4. May 14, 2009 . Sound Transit Board identifies preferred East Link light rail route . Sound Transit . May 3, 2016.
  5. News: Demay . Daniel . June 2, 2016 . Sound Transit approves faster timeline for next phases of light rail . . June 30, 2016.
  6. February 25, 2016 . Sound Transit advances engineering for Federal Way, Redmond light rail extensions . Sound Transit . August 31, 2016.
  7. News: Belman . Brooke . August 24, 2023 . Get ready for new Link service on the Eastside next spring . The Platform . Sound Transit . August 24, 2023.