As additional stations open up in the next decade, a lot of two-car households are going to have one car.” “I’m really excited about the spread all the way to Bellevue, and up to Everett. “If this can take 5% of the cars off the road, I think it’s going to create a reduction in traffic,” he said. Trains from the new Northgate Station can reach downtown in 14 minutes, which transit rider Jason Herzberg called “Superb!” Herzberg said he’s “grateful for finally seeing our community tax dollars pay off.” “When you look at a building, when you look at a bridge, when you look at a station, what do those three things have in common? They say, ‘Come here, this is where all the good stuff is.’ It brings people together.” “It’s an asset, it’s a jewel, not just for the city, not just for the county, not just for the region and nationally because of the NHL,” said City Councilmember Debora Juarez, whose district includes Northgate. Light rail arrives just in time for traffic-free connections to the new Kraken Community Iceplex and a walk-bike bridge over Interstate 5 to North Seattle College, to be followed by thousands of new apartments, offices, a medical clinic and two proposed hotels. The $1.9 billion, 4.3-mile megaproject marks another transformation to growing North Seattle, where farms and marshes around Thornton Creek were paved to build one of America’s first drive-up shopping centers in 1950. SEATTLE -Sound Transit needed 25 years of campaigns, taxes and labor to finally extend light rail to Northgate where, starting Saturday, thousands of people will find new ways to cross the congested city.

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