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Construction workers work on what will be a future light-rail bridge that will cross I-405 in downtown Bellevue. What looks like a roller-coaster shape is just falsework to support concrete pours, forming the bridgeâ€™s arch-shaped underside. The rails and deck surface will be nearly flat. Train service is scheduled to begin in 2023, along a $3.7 billion corridor from International District/Chinatown Station to Overlake. The finished bridge deck will be basically flat, climbing eastward at a 1.5 percent slope. NE 6th Ave. is at left, not in frame and I-405 southbound lane is at right middle and lower side of frame where the white vehicle is.

June 6, 2018 at 7:22 pm

The rail link from Seattle to Bellevue takes shape VIEW

A very visible piece of the eastside light-rail extension is the bridge crossing I-405 in downtown Bellevue. Service is projected to start in 2023 to...

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Light rail trains will run over the middle lanes of the I-90 floating bridge in 2023, shot Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Construction on the floating bridge is part of the East Link project that will extend light rail 14 miles from downtown Seattle to downtown Bellevue and the Overlake area of Redmond via I-90, with 10 new stations. Drivers will not see work being done until around 2019 because the work being done now is underneath the bridge, in the floating pontoons that hold up the bridge. After the pontoons are retrofitted with one million feet of cables, tracks will be laid on the old roadway at center in frame.

June 28, 2017 at 8:49 pm

Progress on I-90 light-rail work

Work has just begun to convert the center express lanes of the I-90 floating bridge into a train corridor across Lake Washington by 2023.

April 8, 2017 at 5:53 pm

West Seattle egg hunt focuses on kids with special needs

The Lions Club of West Seattle offered its first egg hunt for blind and visually impaired youth at the Seattle Lutheran High School gym Saturday.

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An iron workers moves an I-beams into place as he works on the construction of the new Madison Centre located at 5th Ave. and Madison in downtown Seattle Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. The building will have 750,000 SF Class A+ Office space. For more information, see: MadisonCentre.com

August 3, 2016 at 9:02 pm

Seattle skyscraper in the works

Construction is in full swing for Madison Centre, at Fifth Avenue and Madison Street, in downtown Seattle. It will be 530 feet tall when finished.

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August 28, 2015 at 3:03 pm

Commuting with Simon Nakhale

Simon Nakhale spends a lot of time on the road commuting to his two jobs to make ends meet for his family -- around three...

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Retired firefighter Paul Masiel from the Ventura City Department in Ventura, California gives his wife Sandy a hug as he reaches the top of the Columbia Tower after climbing up 69 flights of stairs for the Scott Firefighter Stair Climb, which is a benefit for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Washington/Alaska chapter. He did the climb with seven fellow fire fighters for Aubrey Gaines, 11, from Riverside County in Californai and also for his first wife Liz, who he lost to leukemia at the age of 29. Sandy was one of her closest friends.

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March 8, 2015 at 8:09 pm

Firefighters scale Columbia Center to raise $2M for charity VIEW

Nearly 2,000 firefighters from 26 states and five countries, dressed in at least 50 pounds of “turnout gear,” climbed 69 flights of steps in Columbia...