page_title: Line 2 (Sound Transit)
hierarchical_section_title: Line 2 (Sound Transit)
caption_attribution_description: English: A section of the East Link Extension in the median of Interstate 90 on the East Channel Bridge where tracks and catenary supports have been installed.
context_page_description: The East Link Extension, also known as Line 2, is a future light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It will be part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system, running 14 miles from west to east and serving 10 stations in Downtown Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond. Line 2 is scheduled to open in 2023 and will continue into the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and share stations with Line 1. A 3.7-mile-long extension to Downtown Redmond with two additional stations is scheduled to open in 2024.
  The East Link project, projected to cost $3.7 billion to construct, was approved by voters in the 2008 Sound Transit 2 ballot measure. The line will use the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges, which was constructed in 1989 with the intent to convert its reversible express lanes to light rail. Early transit plans from the 1960s proposed an Eastside rail system, but preliminary planning on the system did not begin until Sound Transit's formation in the early 1990s.
context_section_description: The East Link Extension, also known as Line 2, is a future light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It will be part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system, running 14 miles (23 km) from west to east and serving 10 stations in Downtown Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond. Line 2 is scheduled to open in 2023 and will continue into the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel and share stations with Line 1. A 3.7-mile-long (6.0 km) extension to Downtown Redmond with two additional stations is scheduled to open in 2024.
  The East Link project, projected to cost $3.7 billion to construct, was approved by voters in the 2008 Sound Transit 2 ballot measure. The line will use the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges, which was constructed in 1989 with the intent to convert its reversible express lanes to light rail. Early transit plans from the 1960s proposed an Eastside rail system, but preliminary planning on the system did not begin until Sound Transit's formation in the early 1990s. The proposed alignment of the East Link project was debated by the Bellevue city council in the early 2010s, with members split on two different routes south of downtown Bellevue; city funding for the downtown segment's tunnel was also debated and ultimately included in the final agreement. The alignment was finalized in 2013, after more than two years of debate, and delayed the beginning of construction to 2016 and the completion of the project from 2021 to 2023. The line will be the world's first railway constructed on a floating bridge and is expected to carry 50,000 daily riders by 2030.
caption: Construction in the median of Interstate 90 on the East Channel Bridge, seen in July 2019
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