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Sound Transit was created in 1993 and placed a ballot measure to fund and build the system, which was passed on a second attempt in 1996.

The Link light rail system was originally conceived in the 1980s following several earlier proposals for a heavy rail system that were rejected by voters.

In 2022, the system had a ridership of 23,905,500, or about 75,000 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2022, primarily on the 1 Line, and runs trains at frequencies of 6 to 24 minutes. It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit providers, and consists of two non-connected lines: the 1 Line (formerly Central Link) in King County, which travels for 25 miles (40 km) between Seattle and Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and the T Line (formerly Tacoma Link) in Pierce County, which runs for under 2 miles (3.2 km) between Downtown Tacoma and Tacoma Dome Station. As always when I post a Seattle transit map (this is my fourth or fifth), I will note that the standard in Puget Sound transit mapping remains Oran Viriyincy’s city map, now accompanied by an Eastside map.Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. The typefaces are Akzidenz-Grotesk and, for route shields, Humnst 777. This is more or less what a mid-’20s Link strip map should look like based on current branding, assuming Sound Transit shows both lines on a single diagram, and if the agency ever lets go of its station pictograms, which only really make sense where illiteracy rates are high (a more universal way to reinforce station names is the Asian system of numbering them). Stride bus rapid transit also does not yet exist. The existing system consists of the 1 Line (formerly the Red Line, an interesting choice, other issues aside, for a city whose unofficial colors are blue and green) between Angle Lake and Northgate. This concept for an in-car strip map shows Link light rail as it will appear around the middle of this decade, and as it will remain for a few years after, until the next big wave of expansion currently planned for the 2030s. Along with greater Los Angeles, metropolitan Seattle has the fastest-growing rail system in North America.