Thousands last weekend celebrated the opening of new light rail stations in Redmond as Sound Transit has now grown its Eastside line to ten stops. Connecting Seattle’s line across the lake via I-90 — and the Central District’s new Judkins Park Station — to join up with those new stations has been pushed back again to 2026.
Amid the Redmond celebrations, Sound Transit head Dow Constantine said this week that the latest time estimates have pushed plans for the 2 Line connecting from downtown through Judkins Park and across I-90 to “early 2026.”
Originally planned for a 2023 opening, construction of the line on the I-90 bridge has been a much larger technical challenge than expected with the defective track bed having to be rebuilt twice…