Downtown Redmond Link Extension
Serving Marymoor Park and Redmond Town Center

News and updates

Project design video update

Just when the Downtown Redmond Link Extension project team was about to kick off a spring open house we were all ordered to stay home. Since then the project team has been working hard to bring the…

Sound Transit's design build contractor releases early design images for future downtown Redmond station

The design team has released its first set of drawings for Downtown Redmond Station to the City's design review board. Sound Transit's contractor used design requirements developed in partnership…

Drilling work will block lanes and trail near SR 520

Sound Transit’s design team is preparing for construction of the light rail extension into downtown Redmond. Drill rig crews will be working at various locations along the alignments for the next…

Downtown Redmond Groundbreaking photo

Downtown Redmond Link Extension updates

Sound Transit and its project partners ceremonially kicked off the Downtown Redmond Link light rail extension project this week. Elected officials and other dignitaries gathered with golden shovels…

Sound Transit breaks ground on Downtown Redmond Link Extension

Extension of the Blue Line will add two new stations, 1,400 parking spaces in southeast Redmond Sound Transit and its partners today celebrated the start of construction of the 3.4-mile Downtown…

Sound Transit selects Stacy and Witbeck/Kuney, a Joint Venture, to build Downtown Redmond Link Extension

The Sound Transit Board of Directors today selected Stacy and Witbeck/Kuney, a Joint Venture, to complete final design and build the Downtown Redmond Link Extension. The project will extend the Blue…

Northgate Station under construction looking south from the future light rail tracks that will stretch all the way to Lynnwood.

Building quality transit takes quality time

The Seattle Times recently published an article titled “Could Sound Transit build light rail faster? It wouldn’t be easy.”  It’s a question the public asked three years ago when Sound Transit…

Downtown Redmond Link Extension project update

The Downtown Redmond Link Extension project will build a 3.4 mile extension of light rail to downtown Redmond from the Redmond Technology Station currently under construction in Overlake.…

Please complete a questionnaire regarding light rail to Downtown Redmond

Light rail is coming to Downtown Redmond. Over the past two years, Sound Transit and the City of Redmond have engaged the community on topics such as alignment, station locations, preliminary station…

Sound Transit Board selects final Downtown Redmond Link Extension alignment

Final route incorporates changes Board requested in 2017 to separate trains from traffic and pedestrians. The Sound Transit Board today selected an elevated light rail alignment in downtown Redmond…