Link light rail station | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | 3000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle, Washington United States | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°34′35.7″N 122°17′51.7″W / 47.576583°N 122.297694°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Sound Transit | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | King County Metro | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
Parking | Paid parking nearby | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Lockers | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 18, 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
1,918 daily weekday boardings (2023)[1] 615,395 total boardings (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Mount Baker station is a light rail station located in Seattle, Washington. It is situated between the Columbia City and Beacon Hill stations on the 1 Line, which runs from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle, the University of Washington, and Northgate as part of the Link light rail system. The elevated station consists of two side platforms located west of the intersection of Rainier Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in the Mount Baker neighborhood, part of Seattle's Rainier Valley.
A light rail station in the Mount Baker area was first proposed in 1995 and approved the following year. Construction began in late 2005 and the station was opened for regular service on July 18, 2009. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Mount Baker station is also served by five King County Metro bus routes that connect it to Downtown, Capitol Hill, Rainier Beach, the Central District, and the University District.