In less than five weeks, Sound Transit will open three new light rail stations in North Seattle. A North Broadway station was eliminated from further study by two votes on the Sound Transit board. What I'm excited by is that he and his brother are going to be able to use this,' Congdon said.The light rail line envisioned in 1999 was planned to head directly north from Capitol Hill Station. Julie Congdon, a resident of Seattle's Broadview neighborhood, said she plans to take the train more often from the Northgate stop and is glad there will be public transportation options for her kids. 'Really excited to see a lot more expansion in the light rail and public transit but I think we need even more resources and more stops and more lines,' Rafferty said. Other rides in the train, like Mark Rafferty, said the extension is long overdue.

'There are just a ton of restaurants I believe the number is somewhere near a hundred,' Richardson said. Richardson said the hope is to attract more visitors to the area. The U-District stop is the second stop in the vicinity of the University of Washington campus. 'It's the revitalization of a great historical, iconic neighborhood,' said U-District Partnership board member Miles Richardson. The U-District Partnership held a food and drink kick-off event on Brooklyn Avenue, the location of the new U-District stop. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people rode the train to the new stops at Seattle's U-District, Roosevelt, and Northgate neighborhoods and enjoyed celebration events along the way. SEATTLE - Sound Transit's inaugural service on three new Link light rail stops on the Northgate Link extension attracted plenty of riders Saturday.

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