Update: Sound Transit says these light rail stations will open in December of 2020. We’ve corrected that below. Also, the links to Sound Transit sites are live again.
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When Sound Transit moves north from the University District with its North Link trains, two light rail stations will serve Maple Leaf, one near Roosevelt High School, the other at the Northgate Transit Center.
A final design meeting for those stations, and one on Brooklyn Avenue Northeast at 45th Street, will be held Wednesday, June 16, at Roosevelt High, 1410 N.E. 66th St. Details are here. The stations are to open by 2020.
The underground Roosevelt station will be 90 feet beneath 12th Avenue Northeast, and will include two entrances with pedestrian plazas at 65th and 67th streets. The north entrance will be outside the high school about where the QFC is today.
The elevated Northgate station, two miles north of the Roosevelt station, will be sandwiched between Interstate 5 and Metro’s Transit Center, just about where the express lanes now exit the freeway. It will span Northeast 103rd Street just east of First Avenue, with entrances on Northgate Mall property and near the transit center.
Sound Transit has provided overhead diagrams of each station and the area within a five-minute walking distance. Here’s the Northgate station (pdf). And here’s Roosevelt (pdf).
Thanks, Shay. Yes, I see a number of things on their site aren’t functioning, not just my links. At least that reduces the chances it’s operator error on my part. -Mike
They seem to be having server issues. None of the images on the site are working at all, and all the links to the PDF’s are broken links. Will watch for when it comes back up!
Hmmm. They were operative earlier today when we wrote and edited it. (Phillip is referring to about half of the Sound Transit links.) Thanks for telling Sound Transit. I’ll look around, too. -Mike
I noticed that those diagrams aren’t actually available and notified Sound Transit… I figured I’d mention it here too in case anybody else notices that the links are dead.