(Image: Sound Transit)
There will be no light rail service through downtown Seattle this weekend. Sound Transit is closing the line between Capitol Hill and SoDo for planned maintenance on Saturday and Sunday:
Due to planned rail maintenance, Link light rail will be temporarily suspended between Capitol Hill and SODO stations from the start of service Saturday, June 22 through the end of service Sunday, June 23. Normal operations will resume at the start of service Monday, June 24. During this time, Sound Transit will provide Link Shuttle buses to transport passengers. The buses will run every 15 minutes and stop at all stations between Capitol Hill and SODO. Passengers should plan ahead and allow for extra time for transfers between buses and trains.
Sound Transit says it expect service to be up and running in time for Monday morning.
The closure is part of the latest work as Sound Transit undertakes needed maintenance, repair, and upgrade work in the downtown transit tunnel in advance of expansion including service connecting Lynnwood to the existing 1 Line at the end of August.
More expansion is coming including the new line connecting Seattle to the Eastside across I-90. Costly construction snafus have delayed the opening of Judkins Park Station and the Eastside expansion line it is part of to 2025 — some eight years after the project broke ground.
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They choose to do this on Fremont Solstice Day parade weekend? One of the largest annual bike events in Seattle. Serious?
If it’s a bike event then why not just ride a bike there? Throughout downtown and into SLU, on the way to Fremont, there are bike friendly lanes for cyclists to use. Plus, it’s not like a person would be riding light rail to Fremont anyway.
The maintenance has to be done at some point, and since most big events happen in the summer, there’s bound to be some inconvenience for some people. We should all just take a deep breath, adapt, and cope.
E John Street is also closed all weekend between 11th and 12th, disrupting the 8, 10, and 43 buses, but for some reason Metro hasn’t sent out any alerts about that yet.
And Montlake Boulevard is closed.
Biked Montlake yesterday and you could see a desire path in the grass of going around the closure.
Again? It’s like all the time. No service, reduced service.