The Bellevue-Redmond 2 Line will open on Saturday, April 27 with fresh questions about when it will ever connect with Seattle.
The link line comes 16 years after voters approved a ballot measure for light rail to the Eastside, but it is not what Sound Transit originally promised.
The line was originally expected to open at the same time as a cross-lake connection to Seattle. However, a contractor for Sound Transit has had to re-do thousands of concrete blocks for the train service, meaning starting over from scratch.
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Not to bad mouth anyone but since the days we paid bonus' for finishing large scale projects ahead of time things like this have never concluded "on time"
Train to nowhere billions over budget government inept 😂 no one held accountable sounds like everything governor does
Damn 16 years 🤣🤣🤣
I just wait for the day when the outrageous tab fee is gone.
The STUPIDITY of Sound Transit Management is Absolutely Unbelievable !!! The taxpayers should NOT have to pay for THEIR mistakes, but we WILL !!!
When you say Redmond I was thinking of downtown, not Overlake.. Crossing 148th from one side to the other is Bellevue to Redmond.
Wow! Sounds like the same people who built BART! I wish VTA looked that nice, tho!
We are ahead of schedule…the completion date is scheduled for 2030.
16 YEARS AGO?! Seattle trains agency is light-speed!
Jeez. Infrastructure is not a thing in America anymore. 😢
LOL 16 YEARS
Your Sinclair politics are showing Komo. Could this be any more negative a tilt? What a great day this was and you just puke all over it with this negative crap. Thousands were there enjoying it.
Who should pay…. The contractor who screwed up on the concrete blocks.. seems like that happens a lot around Seattle roadwork or anything else contractors are always behind schedule because they screw stuff up.
Get a Chinese construction company to do the job, they can clean up the I-90 mess in a few months, at a fraction of the cost, at the same (or better?) quality.
Can you please make poor people pay for their tickets? I know we have to be fake “compassion” but it’s getting out of hand