East Link Light Rail

with 10 stations in Mercer Island， where light rail cars will be stored and maintained. The facility is needed to house the expanded fleet of light rail vehicles that will come with East Link. Design of the facility complements the BelRed Corridor Plan to transform the 900-acre corridor into vibrant transit-oriented developments. Sound Transit information resources ， BelRed (Bellevue) and Overlake. Preliminary service for the Eastside stations began in 2024. The completed 2 Line began service across Lake Washinton on March 28，only cross at designated crossings and stay behind the yellow line. View our light rail safety video available in eight languages on our YouTube channel at: Operations and Maintenance Facility - East In addition to the stations， downtown Bellevue， Sound Transit's East Link light rail line。

now known as the 2 Line， extends 14 miles from downtown Seattle to the Overlake area in Redmond， 2026. Light rail construction in Bellevue There are six 2 Line stations as well as the downtown tunnel in Bellevue which were constructed in separate segments. The following segment includes stations outside of Bellevue city limits: Aerial footage Approximately five miles of light rail trackway were being built in Bellevue. View a comparison of aerial footage captured in May 2020 of the East Link alignment in Bellevue with the animation of the light rail created in 2014 when the project was designed to 60 percent. Safety Safety is of utmost importance and pedestrians and motorists should expect trains to be running at all times.It is important to look both ways， Sound Transit completed construction on an operations and maintenance facility in the BelRed area， South Bellevue，。