What Will Angle Lake Station Mean For Light Rail Users?

Yesterday Sound Transit announced that Angle Lake Station will open on Saturday September 24th. The elevated station sits 1.6 miles south of Airport Station, currently the southern terminus of the Link light rail line. Angle Lake will be the furthest south you can go until the Kent/Des Moines extension is opened, expected by 2023. Sound Transit says that it will take just 41 minutes starting from Angle Lake to reach Westlake Center and about 48 minutes to reach University of Washington Station.

Originally scheduled for a 2020 opening in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure, the agency accelerated the project by four years after securing $10 million in TIGER funding, with the press release giving a special shout out to U.S. Senator Patty Murray for helping to snag the grant. The $383 million extension also came in $40 million under budget.

Now, some Seattleites may be asking themselves: where is Angle Lake and why would I go there? A few even took some ribbing on Twitter.