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Downtown Redmond station
Light rail station in Redmond, Washington From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Downtown Redmond station is a Link light rail station on the north side of Redmond Town Center shopping mall in downtown Redmond, Washington. It is an elevated station with a single island platform along Cleveland Street between 164th and 166th avenues.[1][2]
The station was originally included in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure in 2008, but was left out of the East Link Extension after a funding shortfall stemming from the City of Bellevue's desire for a tunneled alignment under Downtown Bellevue.[3] 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.[4] The Sound Transit 3 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.[5] Preliminary engineering on the Redmond extension was approved in February 2016, after being suspended in 2010.[6]
Downtown Redmond station is situated over the Redmond Central Connector park and trail and is immediately north of the Redmond Town Center, a regional shopping mall.[7] The station opened to passenger service on May 10, 2025, with a celebration, booths along the Central Connector, and live music.[8][9] The RapidRide B Line, which originally terminated at Redmond Transit Center, was extended to serve the station.[7]
The station's public artwork consists of a set of 25 murals by six artists that were produced by a mosaics studio in Tieton.[10] The murals includes depictions of Japanese American internment during World War II, botanical motifs, and motion.[7]
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