![]() (Not the 44, 48, 49, 70, or any routes west of Aurora.) At this point Metro wants to know what people think about the current network, and recruit people for a “Mobility Board” to review the restructure proposals starting this fall.Īccording to Metro’s briefing on the project, Northgate Link will open in 2021 with U-District, Roosevelt, and Northgate stations. The Northgate Link restructure has started. ![]() Maybe car-storage next to a train station is worth paying for after all? A Photo Tour of Link Construction When I visited, during a Husky game, one of the Northgate lots was selling Husky game parking. Speaking of which, there’s something humorous (to me, at least) about the signage, which refers to all riders as “commuters.” Sound Transit’s singular focus on work trips as the main reason one might ride public transit trickles all the way down to the wayfinding department, apparently. The exception is Sound Transit’s, which charges $15 but only on the top floor, attempting to ensure at least some weekday availability for commuters. And a brand new Sound Transit-built garage, which we have written about going back nearly a decade.The Metro Park & Ride (one corner of which is slated to become affordable housing, after much back and forth).Whatever your reasons, you’ll find several parking garages and lots in the immediate vicinity of the station. But let’s say you’ve decided to take a car, because, say, an unscrupulous real estate agent sold you a house with “close to light rail” in the description when in fact the nearest station was 40 minutes away via an infrequent bus line. ![]() So ideally you should walk, bike, bus or roll to the station. But of course Sound Transit, the board, and probably a healthy chunk of the electorate disagrees with us here, so ST continues to build parking garages, making gradual steps to even charge for their usage. Now, the official position of Seattle Transit Blog is that building parking garages near train stations is generally not the best use of taxpayer money (sometime obscenely wasteful, in fact). Can you guess what it was? No? Surprise: it was Sound Transit’s first parking garage inside the Seattle city limits. Something else debuted this month alongside three new Link stations.
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