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Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff speaks to the media about work being done so that light rail trains can travel over the I-90 floating bridge (in background) Wednesday, June 28, 2017. Light rail trains will begin running over the middle lanes of the I-90 floating bridge in 2023. Building light rail across a floating bridge is a world’s first achievement. Innovative engineering has created a track bridge that will compensate for six ranges of lake motion. When the trains start running, it will take about a minute to cross the floating bridge. 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.

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Employees at Tom Douglas Seattle Kitchen’s new company lounge Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in Seattle, which has been created to use before and between shifts, and to try to make it easier to avoid peak commuting hours for workers. From left: Madeline Pennington, Todd Rotkis, who are both in marketing; and general cousel Loretta Douglas, who is Tom’s daughter. It’s one of many strategies that companies are looking at as they prepare for the traffic nightmare when the viaduct comes down but the tunnel isn’t open yet. 208696

Viaduct shutdown: Seattle businesses prepare for gridlock as three-week Highway 99 closure looms