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Lots were riding it yesterday for the baseball game and to be on it crossing the lake. Many coworkers have told me they will now take the light rail to the international station, get off like I do from Lynnwood on the 1 Line and walk the 3 blocks to work.

Based on what I last read, today is the first day of operation for Sound Transit's new light rail line connecting Seattle to the East Side, meaning Bellevue and Redmond, home of Microsoft. It's going to cross on the I-90 floating bridge across Lake Washington. I'll eventually get to the area and take a ride on it. Something like this was a long time coming and needed. When I lived on the East Side and would go out of town via the airport, I would to take the miserable 340 (?) bus connecting Bellevue to SEA Airport. It was a milk train and would go through Renton, which I had nicknamed "rent to own." I lived diagonally across the metro area from the airport. I'm glad that Line 2 is finally here.