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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Aug 23, 2023, 01:01 PM Aug 2023

Long-awaited Tacoma light rail extension finally has an opening date

Sound Transit's $283 million Tacoma Link light rail extension will open Sept. 16, the transit agency announced this week.

The 2.4-mile project was initially expected to be complete in May 2022 at a cost of $217 million, but project delays and rising construction costs boosted the price tag by tens of millions of dollars.

The extension will bring Tacoma's light rail line, called the T Line, to a total of 4 miles.

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The new track will include six new stations and a relocated one and will run from the St. Joseph’s Medical Center at Martin Luther King Jr. Way and South 17th Street in the Hilltop neighborhood to the Tacoma Dome neighborhood.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/08/22/tacoma-light-rail-extension-hilltop-opening.html

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