University Link Light Rail Construction Street
improvements to keep Seattle Moving

Construction on the University Link portion of light rail is underway. The ground beneath I-5 is being prepared for a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig light rail tunnels between Capitol Hill and Downtown Seattle. As a result, the Olive Way off-ramp from northbound I-5 is closed to traffic for about one year.

To minimize impacts to local streets, SDOT and Sound Transit invested $840,000 on the following:

• Changed signal timing at 40 intersections along the following corridors:
• James Street from Sixth Avenue to Broadway
• Boren Avenue from Stewart Street to Broadway
• Madison Street from Sixth Avenue to Broadway

• Installed two temporary traffic signals at:
• Seventh Avenue and Spring Street
• Seventh Avenue and Seneca Street

• Modified traffic signals at 17 intersections for emergency vehicles

• Installed two new traffic cameras to monitor traffic at:
• Seventh Avenue and Pike Street
• Eighth Avenue and Olive Way

Project contact: Jeff Munnoch, Sound Transit Community Outreach Specialist, (206) 398-5131, jeff.munnoch@soundtransit.org

24 Hour Hotline: (888) 298-2395