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No light rail this weekend between Capitol Hill and SoDo

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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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R Place’s gay bar legacy appears to have come to an end with The Comeback closure

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Any hope the spirit of Capitol Hill gay club R Place would live on in SoDo has been dashed. The Comeback has closed.

Seattle Gay Scene reported details of the “long, drawn out, painful demise” here. The Stranger says The Comeback “abruptly closed its doors Sunday with a last dance and a blowout liquor sale.”

CHS reported on the rise of The Comeback off the Hill after R Place lost its E Pine lease in 2021. Continue reading →

The Comeback: Heart and soul of Capitol Hill’s R Place will live on in SoDo

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Floyd Lovelady didn’t own R Place but he made the E Pine at Boylston what it was through decades of Capitol Hill queer nightlife. Lovelady is ready to continue that spirit — off the Hill.

The Comeback will be a new LGBTQIA+ club with dancing, performances, and good times on 1st Ave south of the stadiums in the industrial mix of commerce, clubs, and nightlife growing in the city’s SoDo neighborhood.

“I wanted a place where we could be as noisy as we want,” Lovelady tells CHS. Continue reading →