Part of MLT Transit Center will close for light-rail work
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Big parking changes are coming next month at the Mountlake Terrace Transit Center to make room for Link light rail construction.
In the transit center surface lot, 220 spaces will disappear after Oct. 19. A new lot with slightly more spaces will open about a half mile away at the former site of Roger’s Market Place. The transit center garage will remain open.
That won’t be the only parking adjustment for Mountlake Terrace commuters during the nearly five-year construction timeline ahead.
“The interim lot will be open for 12 to 18 months,” said John Gallagher, a Sound Transit spokesman. “At that point, we’ll be able to open a temporary lot at 59th Place. That temporary lot will be open until the new station opens in 2024.”
The future lot at 59th Place West, next to the the transit center, is currently a cul-de-sac of nine single-family houses that Sound Transit is in the process of acquiring through eminent domain.
When those houses fall, they’ll join a host of other visual cues portending the construction of the future 8.5-mile light rail route from Northgate to Lynnwood. Crews have cut down thousands of trees along I-5 since spring. A Black Angus restaurant and a furniture warehouse next to the Lynnwood Transit Center were knocked down by excavators last year.
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