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 The entrance to Stadium station, looking south at the ticket vending machines andORCA card readers | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 501 South Royal Brougham Way Seattle, Washington United States | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°35′28.8″N122°19′37.8″W / 47.591333°N 122.327167°W /47.591333; -122.327167 | |||||||||||||||
| System | Link light rail station | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Sound Transit | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Paid parking nearby | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 18, 2009 (2009-07-18) | |||||||||||||||
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| 1,421 daily weekday boardings (2024)[1] 522,211 total boardings (2024)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Stadium station is alight railstation located inSeattle,Washington. It is situated between theSODO andInternational District/Chinatown stations on the1 Line, part ofSound Transit'sLink light rail system. The station consists of an at-gradeisland platform at the intersection of the SODO Busway and South Royal Brougham Way in theSODO neighborhood of Seattle, adjacent toLumen Field andT-Mobile Park.
Stadium station was proposed in 1998 as part of the segment between theDowntown Seattle andBeacon Hill tunnels and subsequentlydeferred months later. It was reinstated in 2005 and construction of the station was completed in May 2006, several years before Link light rail service began on July 18, 2009. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; theheadway between trains is six minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Stadium station is also served by severalSound Transit Express andKing County Metro buses that stop on theSODO Busway west of the platform, as well as the SeattleGreyhound station east of the platform.
Stadium station is situated at the intersection of the SODO Busway and Royal Brougham Way, under the ramps ofInterstate 90, in theSODO neighborhood ofSeattle.[2] The station is adjacent to aKing County Metro employeeparking garage, which includes a pedestrian bridge over the platform to the Metro Ryerson Base, and the SeattleGreyhoundbus station.[3][4] The area surrounding Stadium station contains a mixture oflight industrial zoning, primarily home to the manufacturing and warehousing industry employing over 13,000 workers, with some retail uses.[5][6][7]Lumen Field andT-Mobile Park are located one block west of the station on the north and south sides of Royal Brougham Way, respectively.[8] The light rail line is paralleled to the east by amixed-usebicycle trail called theSODO Trail, which connects Stadium station toSODO station at South Lander Street.[9] TheSeattle Department of Transportation plans to extend the trail further south to Spokane Street, connecting it to a bike trail on theSpokane Street Viaduct, servingWest Seattle.[10]
Stadium station was not part of the initial Link light rail route approved in 1996,[11][12] but was created as part of "Route C1" added toCentral Link (now the 1 Line) by theSound Transit Board in 1998. The routing included anat-grade section parallel to the SODO Busway and atunnel under Beacon Hill, with stations at South Royal Brougham Way, South Lander Street and underBeacon Hill.[13] While "Route C1" was selected as the final Central Link route in 1999,[14] the station at South Royal Brougham Way wasdeferred, except for the construction of theplatform and supports required for aninfill station.[15][16] The Sound Transit Board began studying the re-addition of a station at Royal Brougham Way in late 2004 and approved construction of the newly renamed Stadium station on January 13, 2005,[17] using $3.7 million in surplus funds after bids for the construction of Link Light Rail were lower than budgeted.[18][19]
Construction of Stadium station began with the laying of the first rails for Central Link, between Holgate and Lander streets, in August 2005.[20] The station itself was built byKiewit Pacific in less than a year, with opening ceremonies for Stadium and SODO stations held on May 30, 2006, celebrating the completion of the first two Central Link stations.[21] Light rail testing on the 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km), at-grade SoDo segment began in March 2007,[22] and ended in February 2008.[23] Regular Link service fromSeattle toTukwila began on July 18, 2009,[24] including the use of itspocket track to store extra trains serving a selloutfriendly match betweenSeattle Sounders FC andChelsea at Qwest Field.[8][25]
The tracks crossing Royal Brougham Way sank by 3 inches (7.6 cm) due to ground settling and caused Link trains to be limited to 5 to 10 miles per hour (8.0 to 16.1 km/h). A track replacement began in August 2023 with trains on the 1 Line suspended for one weekend and single-tracking for several days afterward.[26][27]
Stadium station consists of a single 400-foot-long (120 m),[21]at-gradeisland platform accessible via an entrance at its north end, 130 feet (40 m) from South Royal Brougham Way.[28] The platform itself has a width of 30 feet (9.1 m) to accommodate event crowds at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) and T-Mobile Park (formerly Safeco Field).[29] Apocket track located south of the station was built to store extra trains that are deployed after major sporting events.[21][30]
The station's formerpictogram was a depiction of theOlympic Torch, a representation of sporting culture. It was created by Christian French as part of theStellar Connections series and its points represented nearby destinations, including the two stadiums.[31][32] The pictogram series was retired in 2024 and replaced bystation numbers.[33]
Stadium station is part of Sound Transit's 1 Line, which runs from betweenLynnwood, theUniversity of Washington campus,Downtown Seattle, theRainier Valley, andSeattle–Tacoma International Airport. It is the thirteenth southbound station fromLynnwood City Center and ninth northbound station fromAngle Lake; Stadium is situated betweenSODO andInternational District/Chinatown stations. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on weekdays and Saturdays, from 5:00 am to 1:00 am, and eighteen hours on Sundays, from 6:00 am to 12:00 am; during regular weekday service, trains operate roughly every eight to ten minutes duringrush hour and midday operation, respectively, with longerheadways of twelve to fifteen minutes in the early morning and at night. During weekends, Link trains arrive at Stadium station every ten minutes during midday hours and every twelve to fifteen minutes during mornings and evenings. The station is approximately 39 minutes from Lynnwood City Center station, 7 minutes fromWestlake station in Downtown Seattle, and 29 minutes fromSeaTac/Airport station.[34] In 2023, an average of 1,462 passengers boarded Link trains at Stadium station on weekdays.[1]
Stadium station is also served by several bus routes on theSODO Busway, which runs parallel to the 1 Line, at a pair ofbus stops west of the station platform at Royal Brougham Way. ThreeSound Transit Express routes stop at the station on their way toTacoma,Lakewood, andGig Harbor.King County Metro operates two all-day routes through the SODO Busway that serveRenton,Tukwila, andKent. Metro also runs fourpeak-direction routes through the SODO Busway towards Renton,Fairwood,Federal Way, and Redondo Heights.[35]
The station was the former terminus of the final northbound trips of the service day to allow for overnight maintenance in Downtown Seattle to begin sooner.[36] Several"night owl" buses also stop the station and connect with the first southbound light rail departure of the service day.[37] In addition to regular bus service, Metro also runs theRoute 97 Link Shuttle, a shuttle service serving Link stations along surface streets during Link service disruptions.[38]
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