Sound Transit asserts Bellevue-Redmond line won't delay Lynnwood light rail
LYNNWOOD — Partial light rail service between Bellevue and Redmond will get more evaluation after the Sound Transit board approved spending $6 million toward it Thursday.
But Snohomish County leaders on the board said the East Link “starter line” shouldn’t come at the expense of the timeline for light rail service in Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace and Shoreline.
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If Lynnwood opens first next year, as construction currently puts it on pace to do by mid-2024, its peak service frequency would be 8 minutes or longer. During busy commute times, that could mean crammed train cars. Its frequency would improve to nearly every 4 minutes with access to the operations and maintenance facility in Bellevue (OMF East).
Without access to OMF East, there won’t be room to store and maintain additional trains, Sound Transit deputy CEO Kimberly Farley said. The only operations site available to the Lynnwood extension would be the OMF Central in the SoDo area of Seattle.
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