Completion of a $1.9-billion light rail extension generally brings with it a pause to celebrate the moment. Not at Sound Transit in Washington’s Puget Sound, where the 2021 opening of the 4.3-mile Northgate Link offered just another key milestone in a long list of ongoing light rail construction totaling $15 billion.
“The number of things we accomplished last year was pretty amazing,” says Kimberly Farley, Sound Transit deputy CEO and chief systems officer. “We were moving forward on all this work in this really challenging environment, both from a safety standpoint [with the ongoing pandemic] and what that meant for progression of the work.”