Downtown Redmond station is a future

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station on the north side of

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shopping mall in downtown

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. It will be elevated located along Cleveland Street ( SR 202) between 164th and 166th avenues. The station was originally included in the Sound Transit 2

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in 2008, but was left out of the

East Link Extension The East Link Extension, also known as the 2 Line, is a future light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It will be part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system, run ...

after a funding shortfall stemming from the City of Bellevue's desire for a tunneled alignment under

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. Sound Transit instead completed environmental reviews and selected a preferred alignment to Downtown Redmond, indefinitely deferring the final segment of East Link until a later date. The

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ballot measure, passed in 2016, includes $1.1 billion in funding for the two stations in Downtown Redmond, which was planned to open by 2024. Preliminary engineering on the Redmond extension was approved in February 2016, after being suspended in 2010.

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