About 2,700 people per day are expected to board trains at Angle Lake Station, set to open in September 2016. The site is convenient for airport workers and residents of the hundreds of apartments along International Boulevard South. Sound Transit supporters gave speeches Wednesday as construction begins on a $30 million, 1,050-space park-and-ride garage.
Future of light rail
Sound Transit is building a 50-mile, $13.5 billion light-rail network over two decades, which started with the first line from Westlake Station to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2009. Next are:
Early 2016
Westlake Station to Capitol Hill and University of Washington.
September 2016
SeaTac/Airport Station to Angle Lake Station
September 2021
UW Station to Northgate
2023
--Northgate Station to Lynnwood
--International District/Chinatown Station to Bellevue and Overlake
--Angle Lake Station to South 240th Street
Source: Sound Transit Link Progress Report
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