Link light rail station | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | 2702 Beacon Avenue South Seattle, Washington United States | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°34′46″N 122°18′41″W / 47.57944°N 122.31139°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Sound Transit | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 split island platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | King County Metro | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
Depth | 160 ft (49 m) | |||||||||||||||
Parking | Street parking nearby | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Lockers and parking cage | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 18, 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
2,134 daily weekday boardings (2023)[1] 711,082 total boardings (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Beacon Hill station is a light rail station located in Seattle, Washington. It is situated between the Mount Baker and SODO stations on the 1 Line, which runs from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington as part of the Link light rail system. The station is located 160 feet (49 m) under the southeast corner of Beacon Avenue South and South Lander Street in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
Beacon Hill station was first proposed in 1998 and was opened on July 18, 2009, as part of the inaugural Link line, after five years of tunnel boring and station construction. It consists of a single island platform, divided into two sections by the twin bores of the Beacon Hill Tunnel; four high-speed elevators ferry passengers from the platform to the surface entrance. 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. The station is also served by three King County Metro bus routes that stop at a pair of sheltered bus stops on Beacon Avenue.