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Rail News Home Mechanical

5/18/2021



Rail News: Mechanical

Sound Transit's first new Link light-rail vehicles enter service


New cars offer more bike racks, larger windows.
Photo – Sound Transit

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The first of Sound Transit’s new Series 2 light-rail vehicles have entered service.

The new cars will more than triple Sound Transit’s fleet in advance of the Oct. 2 opening of the Northgate Link extension. 

Each new vehicle features 70 seats, with larger windows, a wider center-car aisle, more seats with space to stow luggage and four bicycle hooks — twice as many as provided currently.

Each car also will come equipped with dynamic passenger information displays and LED lighting improvements.

A total of 152 new vehicles manufactured by Siemens Mobility in Sacramento, California, will continue to be delivered and commissioned through 2024. Sound Transit ordered 122 vehicles from Siemens in September 2016, and an additional 30 in April 2017.