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“As Sound Tran­sit looks to near­ly triple our light rail net­work in just the next three years, we are thank­ful for the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion of staff and the con­struc­tion work­force in achiev­ing this mon­u­men­tal feat in the mid­dle of a pandemic.” “The open­ing of North­gate Link is a great leap for­ward for Puget Sound com­muters, the first of many leaps for­ward for Sound Tran­sit in the com­ing years,” said Sound Tran­sit CEO Peter Rogoff. We are able to cel­e­brate this mile­stone thanks to sup­port from Fed­er­al Tran­sit Admin­is­tra­tion, our con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion and the region­al vot­ers who approved build­ing a world-class tran­sit sys­tem for our grow­ing communities.” “North­gate Link will let thou­sands of rid­ers get to their des­ti­na­tions on time with­out sit­ting in hor­ren­dous traf­fic. “This is a his­toric day and the start of three years that will trans­form how peo­ple get around our region,” said Sound Tran­sit Chair Kent Keel. Rid­ers exit a Line 1 train at North­gate Sta­tion on the first day of ser­vice to U Dis­trict, Roo­sevelt, and North­gate (Pho­to: Andrew Villeneuve/NPI) Today’s addi­tions are the most new sta­tions the region has seen simul­ta­ne­ous­ly open at once since the first stage all the way back in 2009. Sound Tran­sit then added four more sta­tions: SeaT­ac in Decem­ber 2009 ( Air­port Link), Capi­tol Hill and Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton in March 2016 ( Uni­ver­si­ty Link), and a sec­ond SeaT­ac sta­tion in Sep­tem­ber 2016 ( Angle Lake Link). The first stage opened in July of 2009, and con­sist­ed of twelve sta­tions in Seat­tle and Tukwila. That line, ini­tial­ly dubbed “Cen­tral Link,” ulti­mate­ly end­ed up get­ting built and open­ing in stages rather than all at once. The inau­gu­ra­tion of rev­enue ser­vice on North­gate Link marks the end of the work to deliv­er the orig­i­nal Sound Move plan approved by vot­ers in 1996, which called for an ini­tial light rail line run­ning from SeaT­ac to Northgate. Ear­ly this morn­ing, in the qui­et pre-dawn hours before sunup, Sound Tran­sit opened the doors to three new light rail sta­tions north of Lake Union and the Mont­lake Cut, com­plet­ing a twen­ty-five year effort to bring high capac­i­ty, high fre­quen­cy, and high qual­i­ty tran­sit ser­vice to Seat­tle’s North­gate neighborhood.