Downtown Redmond station

Downtown Redmond
Link light rail station
Under construction in March 2024
General information
LocationRedmond, Washington
United States
Coordinates47°40′20″N 122°07′13″W / 47.67224°N 122.120156°W / 47.67224; -122.120156
Owned bySound Transit
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated
AccessibleYes
History
Opening2025
Services
Preceding station Sound Transit Following station
Link
Marymoor Village
toward Lynnwood City Center
 2 Line
Downtown Redmond Extension
(2025)
 Terminus
Location
Map

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] It includes murals by six artists that were produced by a mosaics studio in Tieton.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Executive Summary". East Link Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (PDF) (Report). Sound Transit. July 2011. p. ES-51. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  2. ^ "Downtown Redmond Station". Sound Transit. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
  3. ^ Lindblom, Mike (May 4, 2009). "Bellevue eyes Sound Transit train tunnel; Microsoft wants surface route". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  4. ^ "Sound Transit Board identifies preferred East Link light rail route" (Press release). Sound Transit. May 14, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  5. ^ Demay, Daniel (June 2, 2016). "Sound Transit approves faster timeline for next phases of light rail". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  6. ^ "Sound Transit advances engineering for Federal Way, Redmond light rail extensions" (Press release). Sound Transit. February 25, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
  7. ^ Belman, Brooke (August 24, 2023). "Get ready for new Link service on the Eastside next spring". The Platform. Sound Transit. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
  8. ^ Ochoa, Santiago (September 6, 2023). "Tieton Mosaic making 27 murals for Sound Transit stations in Seattle area". Yakima Herald-Republic. Retrieved December 15, 2024.