Everett Station
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Structure type | Four-floor brick-and-glass structure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 1,607 spaces | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Racks and 30 lockers (annual fee) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | Amtrak: EVR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | February 4, 2002[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FY 2022 | 11,914[2] (Amtrak only) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Everett Station is an
Services
Everett Station is served by six daily
The Everett Station complex also includes a
Daily
Station layout
The Everett Station complex is located on 10
Station building
The station building is a four-floor brick-and-glass structure housing 64,000 square feet (5,900 m2) that includes ticketing offices, a waiting area, classrooms, and community rooms. The front façade mainly comprises a three-story glass wall inside of a 34,000-pound (15,000 kg; 15 t) precast steel arch, facing a small plaza at the intersection of Smith Avenue and 32nd Street.
In addition to being a
The first floor is occupied by the
A seasonal farmers' market at the station was established in 2019 and opened on Wednesdays with vendors along 32nd Street, which was closed to traffic.[36] It was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic and returned in 2023 with an artificial turf surface laid over the street.[37]
Awards and recognition
The City of Everett and ZGF Partnership were recognized by the Puget Sound Regional Council with a "Vision 2020" award for its combination of a transportation hub and community gathering place into a single project.[38][39] Everett Station also won the 2006 Citation Award from the Washington branch of the American Institute of Architects, whose jury commended the City of Everett on the station housing "an innovative mix of transit, educational functions, and community spaces; delights travelers; and is welcoming to the public for classes, public meetings, and banquets."[1][40]
History
Prior to the opening of Everett Station in 2002, Amtrak served the city of Everett at a small station located at 2900 Bond Street, overlooking the Port of Everett west of downtown. It saw free commuter rail service from January to March 1995 as part of the "Try Rail" demonstration, consisting of two daily roundtrips from Seattle and special service to Seattle SuperSonics games at the Tacoma Dome.[41][42] The Bond Street Station, originally built by the Great Northern Railway in 1910,[43] was originally planned to be kept as a secondary commuter rail station without parking or major bus connections until it was removed from Sound Transit's plans in 2001.[44][45][46] The station was closed in November 2002 and has since become the offices of the BNSF Railway Northwest Division.[24]
The City of Everett selected a straightaway track segment east of downtown as the preferred location of a multimodal train/bus station, to replace the existing Amtrak station at Bond Street, in 1993.
The $46.9 million station was opened during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 4, 2002, attended by Everett Mayor Ed Hansen,
Sound Transit expanded parking capacity at Everett Station to 1,067 spaces with the addition of 440 stalls, located east of the station and connected via a pedestrian overpass, that opened in May 2009 at a cost of $13.6 million.[60] The southern lot of the station was cleared to build the terminus of Community Transit's Swift Bus Rapid Transit Blue Line, which began service on November 29, 2009, connecting Everett to Shoreline via the State Route 99 corridor.[61][62]
Everett Station was proposed as the site of a
Future plans
Everett Station is also among several options for a future high-speed rail station serving Snohomish County on the Pacific Northwest Corridor, generally following the existing Cascades corridor. The project, led by the Washington State Department of Transportation, was approved for planning in 2022 but is not expected to begin construction for at least a decade.[73]
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