2 Line (Sound Transit)

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The 2 Line is a light rail line serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system and runs for 33 miles (53 km), connecting Snohomish County and Seattle to the Eastside region of King County. The line has fourteen stations it shares with the 1 Line between Lynnwood and Downtown Seattle; the 2 Line then serves twelve standalone stations in Seattle, Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond. The project to build the 2 Line, originally named the East Link Extension, was approved by voters in the 2008 Sound Transit 2 ballot measure. Its construction costs were projected at $3.7 billion. The line uses the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, one of the Interstate 90 floating bridges, which was constructed in 1989 with the intent to convert its reversible express lanes to light rail. Early transit plans from the 1960s proposed an Eastside rail system, but preliminary planning on the system did not begin until Sound Transit's formation...

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