Sound Transit Board advances Federal Way Link Extension opening

July 24, 2025

The Sound Transit Board today approved plans that will support an earlier than expected opening of the Federal Way Link Extension, now projected to begin operating as soon as winter 2025. As final testing and commissioning gets underway on the 1 Line extension from Angle Lake to Federal Way, work continues to open the Crosslake Connection of the 2 Line in early 2026 as expected.

This phased approach will enable the agency to successfully open both projects as soon as possible.

“Sound Transit is proving its ability to assess the way projects are progressing in real time and pivot quickly to provide people throughout the region with more transit options,” said Sound Transit Board Chair and Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers. “This resequencing of opening dates reflects the actual status of each of the projects and allows us to continue moving them both forward in the most efficient way possible.”

The Federal Way Link Extension project has nearly completed system integration testing and is ready to move into the pre-revenue testing phase. At the same time, live wire testing, the second phase of system integration testing, is scheduled to start on the Homer M. Hadley floating bridge this month as planned.

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