Sound Transit announces light rail will begin service in Snohomish County in August

[@nischintr]

Number of puns per minute is at a all time high here 😂

[@JoseLuisGandara]

I grew up just down 145th from the new light rail station. Experiencing the upzoning actually inspired me to study housing policy, & I’m graduating undergrad next month. I’ve been blown away every time I visit home as I see so much progress against the housing crisis with dense, transit-oriented development-and hundreds of new affordable units that would not have been there otherwise. Even my family’s street is going to become much safer to drive on with a new roundabout and median. I can’t wait to take the light rail when I’m home for Thanksgiving, and I’m so glad to see my neighborhood transform for the better!

[@FirstHillSeattle]

I am so glad people in the Seattle area are finally embracing this. When I lived there people were so negative and had been fighting light rail essentially since the 1960s. Kept saying it would lower their property value if it was nearby, even though in every other big city, being near mass transit RAISES your property value. Maybe Seattle isn’t quite as provincial as it once was.

[@JustinLemus_]

Thank for the feature King 5! 💈🙏🏽

[@johnnytran21]

Is Maddie high here? Lot of puns and long pauses

[@britsareweak]

Haha it’s like a drinking game counting all the puns.

[@GR3YD3ATH]

she trying to make light of the rail...

[@Richard-ok5un]

yeh i don't like how she said white at the end....made me tense haha

[@nwsportstilidie]

Maddies at it again.

[@ponyriderz2162]

As a tech worker living in lynnwood commuting frequently to downtown seattle I have mixed feelings. Most of the community transit buses will be canceled because of this. I am able to turn on my laptop and start working on the bus, getting a good view of lake Washington on the second level of the bus or just nap on the bus where everyone can get a seat. With the new light rail I can get to downtown faster but it’s hard to do all those things so essentially I’m spending more time on the commute without being able to do much. Good thing is I don’t have to worry about catching the latest bus home at 6:30pm and can stay in downtown later. But at that point I will have to worry about my safety dealing with strange people in downtown who will also be riding the light rail.

[@Seattlevids13]

GOOD

[@trailerhaul8200]

sheesh. Make it September. The end of August :))

[@Prodigy1XX]

How about you fix the traffic of 405 renton bellevue

[@Prodigy1XX]

@@Acronym6197 should i call you James the kid. You feel like walking to work?... my dude?

[@nwsportstilidie]

Light rail there too

[@chalkywhitelll8448]

@@nwsportstilidie that would be nice but not planned for this century as far as I know.

[@realquadmoo]

405 is being widened for a new section just for a BRT service. The Stride S1 Line will stop at Burien, Tukwila International Boulevard, South Renton Transit Center, and Bellevue without being stuck in traffic. I wish they’d just turn some of the existing lanes bus only. There are a few stops between Renton and Bellevue of course but I can’t remember them. This is scheduled to open in 2027/2028

[@Liamnissan22222]

You fix traffic by reducing the amount of single passenger cars on the road... more public transit options will help

[@tymcfadden8496]

Well, I hope it works well for you Snohomish County. Just remember, in order to get you guys to pay for any of the section in your county, King County had to agree to pay for HALF of the costs for your section, along with ALL of the costs for our own. Once again, the blue carrying the red.

[@britsareweak]

That’s how it should be, It’s King County that creates all the traffic genius.

[@secularmeditation]

Moron snohomish is a historically blue county 🤦‍♀️ also thank you so much for the 10 miles of lightrail that isnt going to do anything to relieve traffic on i5 or highway 9 and really wont impact most of snoho ✌️✌️✌️hope you guys enjoy the rail access to alderwood.

[@britsareweak]

@@secularmeditation of course it will relieve traffic on I5, it goes south all the way to downtown.

[@tymcfadden8496]

@@secularmeditation When you start your comment by calling me a moron all you are going to get is .l..

[@tymcfadden8496]

@@secularmeditation oh, and none of us go up there to Alderwood.

[@gary.richardson]

I hope they would go vertical and come up with a double decker design and double decker load/unload within the 14 foot limit. The benefits are not immediately obvious but it can address overcrowding per train and quicker payback period.

[@realquadmoo]

Double decker Link trains..? You do realize how high the tunnels and stations are right? You do realize how high the catenary is right? You do realize how tall humans are right?

[@VinceYoutubr]

Get ready Lynwood for homeless and criminals coming your way!

[@chalkywhitelll8448]

Wtf😂

[@durece100]

Don't say that.

[@realquadmoo]

Transit isn’t “spreading” homeless people and criminals. Almost every drug user is too stupid to figure out how to ride a train, and the poor people who are just homeless aren’t a problem for anybody. The problem is people like you spreading this nonsense

[@realquadmoo]

@@scottcates well it mainly serves parking garages so what shops

[@JoseLuisGandara]

You might find my honors thesis interesting! It was just accepted and published to Stanford's digital repository. It's titled, "NIMBY Tears: White Homeowners’ Racialized Opposition to Affordable Housing Development."