Nearly nine years after voters approved the funding, Link Line 2 opens in Downtown Redmond with hundreds of families, transit enthusiasts and people who worked on the line taking some of the first rides.
“I love trains,” Zereline Mukherjee said while she rode the inaugural train out of Downtown Redmond, “I’ve been looking forward to this line opening so I can go to Bellevue and not have to drive through all the traffic. It’s amazing.”
About 70% of voters in Redmond supported the regional tax increase that helped fund the line in 2016. The opening ends a long wait for Mukherjee…