U-District Light Rail Station

1 – Brooklyn Street Before Light Rail

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These images were captured in June and July of 2012.

Brooklyn Ave NE is one block to the west of University Way which is the heart of the University of Washington’s University District. Brooklyn Avenue is undergoing a tremendous change with the building of the U-District light rail station which is slated to open in 2021.

A Chase bank was on the NE corner of Brooklyn and 43rd. Years ago there was an IHOP directly across Brooklyn. There was an underground parking lot just north of the bank and a University owned building between the parking lot and the Neptune Theater.

You can get more information about the Northgate extension of the Link Light Rail system from the official web site http://www.soundtransit.org/northgatelink.

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I’ve created this blog to chronicle the construction of the U-District Light Rail Station. This will be a major change to both the University District and to the entire Seattle region. Rail-based mass transit has been around for decades in the Eastern US, Europe, and other parts of the world but it is a new phenomena in the Western US. In a few years folks might wonder what things were like before light rail. I hope this blog will help answer that question.

I have always been fascinated by construction and this blog reflects that continuing fascination. I’ve tried to organize it so it can be quickly scanned if you are not into the details of the site’s construction.