Recent from talks
Tukwila station
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Tukwila station
Tukwila station is a train station in Tukwila, Washington, United States. The station was built by Sound Transit to serve its Sounder commuter rail service on the S Line, as well as Amtrak's intercity Cascades line. It includes 390 parking spaces and a bus platform served by King County Metro's RapidRide F Line and other routes.
Tukwila station was approved for construction in 1996 and an interim station opened on March 12, 2001, using temporary platforms and a leased parking lot. Construction of a permanent station was delayed until additional funding was found and further design work was completed. The $46 million project was approved by the federal government in 2011 and began construction in 2013. It was dedicated on February 18, 2015, featuring new platforms, additional parking, bicycle amenities, and public art.
Tukwila station consists of two 600-foot-long (183 m) side platforms on an embanked, triple-tracked segment of the BNSF Seattle Subdivision. The platforms have several covered shelters and are connected to ground level by stairs and ramps that lead towards a pedestrian underpass along Longacres Way at the north end of the station. The station's ticket vending machines, bike lockers, and bus bays are located in a plaza west of the platforms. The plaza also includes a piece of public art, Sheila Klein's sculpture and garden Imaginary Landscape, located at the station's ancillary building. It consists of planted red-twig dogwood shrubs, painted steel panels, and a steel "crown" atop the building.
A 390-stall park and ride lot is located south of the plaza and includes four electric vehicle charging stations. The lot includes 40 parking spaces for Amtrak passengers, divided between short-term and long-term use, and reserved spaces for carpool vehicles, available for a monthly fee of $5. The station is accessed from the north via Longacres Way, connecting to Interstate 405 and the Southcenter Mall. The City of Tukwila has prepared the area around the station for transit-oriented development and plans to build a multi-use trail between Longacres Way and the Southcenter Mall. Southwest 27th Street travels south and east from the station to Boeing's Longacres Industrial Park, the Federal Reserve Bank, and offices for Kaiser Permanente. An undeveloped area north of the station was proposed in 2015 as the site of an indoor arena for a major-league basketball or hockey team.
The Puget Sound Shore Railroad, a branch of the Northern Pacific Railway, built the first railroad between Seattle and Tacoma in 1884, traveling through modern-day Tukwila on the current BNSF Seattle Subdivision. The railroad was sparsely used during its early years, earning the title "Orphan Road", but had several daily passenger trains stopping at Black River Junction (near Fort Dent) and Orillia (south of modern-day Tukwila station). An interurban railway, the Puget Sound Electric Railway, was built parallel to the Northern Pacific route in the Green River Valley in 1902. It connected Orillia to Tacoma and Seattle until it ceased operations in 1928. The tracks were removed and replaced in the 1980s by the Interurban Trail, a bicycle and pedestrian trail that runs from Tukwila to Pierce County.
The Longacres horse racetrack was built in 1933 to the northeast of Orillia, adjacent to the Northern Pacific tracks and the modern-day Tukwila station. The 215-acre (87 ha) racetrack site was targeted for redevelopment into offices by the City of Renton in the 1980s and acquired by the Boeing Company in 1990. Horse racing at Longacres ended in 1992 and construction of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group headquarters began on the site in 1997. In 1991, Metro Transit recommended the Longacres redevelopment site as a station on a potential commuter rail line between Seattle and Tacoma.
The 1993 regional transit plan developed by the Regional Transit Authority (RTA; later Sound Transit) recommended Longacres as the transfer station between the north–south commuter rail line and a light rail line serving the Interstate 405 corridor. The RTA's March 1995 ballot measure included a Tukwila station for the Seattle–Tacoma commuter rail line, but was rejected by voters. A smaller version of the regional transit plan was re-submitted in November 1996 and approved by voters, allocating $13 million (equivalent to $23.9 million in 2024 dollars) in provisional funding for a commuter rail station at the Longacres site in Tukwila. The station would include two covered platforms, a bus station, bicycle lockers, and 800 to 1,000 parking spaces. The Tukwila station was also selected by Amtrak as a Cascades stop in January 1998, intended to serve all of southern King County as the lone stop between Seattle and Tacoma.
Sound Transit selected the Longacres site as its preferred station location for Tukwila on March 12, 1998, and approved the purchase of 13.8 acres (5.6 ha) from Boeing for the station in September. After receiving six design proposals for Tukwila station, Sound Transit selected MBT Architecture to lead the preliminary design team and later the final design team. Final design was suspended in early 1999 at the request of the Tukwila city council, who were seeking transit-oriented development proposals for the Longacres area from private developers. Construction of the full station was postponed in November 2000, and construction of an $587,000 interim station began immediately. The cost of the station was increased to $796,000 as a result of the rushed bidding and design process, which lasted five days and omitted a survey of underground utilities.
Hub AI
Tukwila station AI simulator
(@Tukwila station_simulator)
Tukwila station
Tukwila station is a train station in Tukwila, Washington, United States. The station was built by Sound Transit to serve its Sounder commuter rail service on the S Line, as well as Amtrak's intercity Cascades line. It includes 390 parking spaces and a bus platform served by King County Metro's RapidRide F Line and other routes.
Tukwila station was approved for construction in 1996 and an interim station opened on March 12, 2001, using temporary platforms and a leased parking lot. Construction of a permanent station was delayed until additional funding was found and further design work was completed. The $46 million project was approved by the federal government in 2011 and began construction in 2013. It was dedicated on February 18, 2015, featuring new platforms, additional parking, bicycle amenities, and public art.
Tukwila station consists of two 600-foot-long (183 m) side platforms on an embanked, triple-tracked segment of the BNSF Seattle Subdivision. The platforms have several covered shelters and are connected to ground level by stairs and ramps that lead towards a pedestrian underpass along Longacres Way at the north end of the station. The station's ticket vending machines, bike lockers, and bus bays are located in a plaza west of the platforms. The plaza also includes a piece of public art, Sheila Klein's sculpture and garden Imaginary Landscape, located at the station's ancillary building. It consists of planted red-twig dogwood shrubs, painted steel panels, and a steel "crown" atop the building.
A 390-stall park and ride lot is located south of the plaza and includes four electric vehicle charging stations. The lot includes 40 parking spaces for Amtrak passengers, divided between short-term and long-term use, and reserved spaces for carpool vehicles, available for a monthly fee of $5. The station is accessed from the north via Longacres Way, connecting to Interstate 405 and the Southcenter Mall. The City of Tukwila has prepared the area around the station for transit-oriented development and plans to build a multi-use trail between Longacres Way and the Southcenter Mall. Southwest 27th Street travels south and east from the station to Boeing's Longacres Industrial Park, the Federal Reserve Bank, and offices for Kaiser Permanente. An undeveloped area north of the station was proposed in 2015 as the site of an indoor arena for a major-league basketball or hockey team.
The Puget Sound Shore Railroad, a branch of the Northern Pacific Railway, built the first railroad between Seattle and Tacoma in 1884, traveling through modern-day Tukwila on the current BNSF Seattle Subdivision. The railroad was sparsely used during its early years, earning the title "Orphan Road", but had several daily passenger trains stopping at Black River Junction (near Fort Dent) and Orillia (south of modern-day Tukwila station). An interurban railway, the Puget Sound Electric Railway, was built parallel to the Northern Pacific route in the Green River Valley in 1902. It connected Orillia to Tacoma and Seattle until it ceased operations in 1928. The tracks were removed and replaced in the 1980s by the Interurban Trail, a bicycle and pedestrian trail that runs from Tukwila to Pierce County.
The Longacres horse racetrack was built in 1933 to the northeast of Orillia, adjacent to the Northern Pacific tracks and the modern-day Tukwila station. The 215-acre (87 ha) racetrack site was targeted for redevelopment into offices by the City of Renton in the 1980s and acquired by the Boeing Company in 1990. Horse racing at Longacres ended in 1992 and construction of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group headquarters began on the site in 1997. In 1991, Metro Transit recommended the Longacres redevelopment site as a station on a potential commuter rail line between Seattle and Tacoma.
The 1993 regional transit plan developed by the Regional Transit Authority (RTA; later Sound Transit) recommended Longacres as the transfer station between the north–south commuter rail line and a light rail line serving the Interstate 405 corridor. The RTA's March 1995 ballot measure included a Tukwila station for the Seattle–Tacoma commuter rail line, but was rejected by voters. A smaller version of the regional transit plan was re-submitted in November 1996 and approved by voters, allocating $13 million (equivalent to $23.9 million in 2024 dollars) in provisional funding for a commuter rail station at the Longacres site in Tukwila. The station would include two covered platforms, a bus station, bicycle lockers, and 800 to 1,000 parking spaces. The Tukwila station was also selected by Amtrak as a Cascades stop in January 1998, intended to serve all of southern King County as the lone stop between Seattle and Tacoma.
Sound Transit selected the Longacres site as its preferred station location for Tukwila on March 12, 1998, and approved the purchase of 13.8 acres (5.6 ha) from Boeing for the station in September. After receiving six design proposals for Tukwila station, Sound Transit selected MBT Architecture to lead the preliminary design team and later the final design team. Final design was suspended in early 1999 at the request of the Tukwila city council, who were seeking transit-oriented development proposals for the Longacres area from private developers. Construction of the full station was postponed in November 2000, and construction of an $587,000 interim station began immediately. The cost of the station was increased to $796,000 as a result of the rushed bidding and design process, which lasted five days and omitted a survey of underground utilities.
Recent media