Light Rail Extension

The City's Role with Light Rail

Although this is a Sound Transit project, the City of Redmond is working together with them to share information on construction, traffic impacts, and other issues that may affect our community or nearby homes, businesses, or properties during design and construction of light rail.

Timeline

Creating Access to Stations

To get riders to and from light rail, Redmond has secured funding and is partnering with Sound Transit to construct a number of multi-modal city facilities to create access to the four stations, including:

Two pedestrian/bicycle bridges over SR 520
Pedestrian/bicycle tunnel funded by Microsoft under NE 40^th Street at the terminus for Eastlink and the start of the Downtown Redmond Link Extension
Improved vehicular access to Marymoor Village and Station in SE Redmond from SR 202
Improved vehicular access at the intersection of SR 202 and NE 76^th Street near SR 520
Grade separated connection between City’s Redmond Central Connector shared-use path and King County’s East Lake Sammamish Parkway trail through the SR 520/SR 202 Interchange and over Bear Creek
Integration of the City’s Redmond Central Connector with the elevated light rail guideway through Downtown
156^th Ave NE Shared Use Path across the street from the Redmond Technology Station
NE 40^th Street Shared Use Path with direct access into the Redmond Technology Station
Intersection improvements at SR 202 and East Lake Sammamish Parkway to improve access to Marymoor Village and Station
Cleveland Street sidewalk reconstruction to improve access to the DT Station