Othello station
At-grade | ||||||||||||||||
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Parking | Paid parking nearby | |||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Lockers | |||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | July 18, 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
2,117 daily weekday boardings (2023)[1] 698,364 total boardings (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Othello station is a
The station opened on July 18, 2009. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the
Location
Othello station is located in the
Transit-oriented development
The area surrounding the station consists primarily of
The construction of
The first major market rate development built adjacent to the light rail line in the Rainier Valley was "The Station at Othello Park", a six-story, 351-unit apartment building that opened at the southeast corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street in 2011.[9][10] A second phase of the project, the 355-apartment "Othello North", will be built on the north side of Othello Street and open in 2017.[11]
An additional
The southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street was planned to be the site of a 500-unit apartment building and
A small parking lot to the south of Othello station was converted into a sanctioned
History
A modern light rail system was proposed by the newly formed Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority (RTA) in 1995, including a line running through the Rainier Valley with a stop at South Othello Street.[16] After the $6.7 billion proposal was rejected by voters in March 1995, the RTA considered building a shorter elevated line on Rainier Avenue, including an option beginning at Columbia City, to the north of Othello, and ending in the University District.[17] In November 1996, a condensed $3.9 billion regional transit plan was approved by voters, including a light rail line between Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport running through the Rainier Valley, with an at-grade station on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South at South Othello Street.[18][19][20]
Concerns from Rainier Valley residents over blocked intersections, property acquisition, and equity led the RTA (later re-branded as Sound Transit) to study a $400 million tunnel through the Rainier Valley.[21] In November 1999, the Sound Transit Board reaffirmed its selection of an at-grade alignment on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South, with a station at South Othello Street.[22]
Sound Transit awarded a $128 million contract to the
From August 21 to September 16, 2023, areas of Othello station were closed to replace broken and cracked tactile pavers on the platform edge. The project also required 1 Line trains to single-track through the Rainier Valley and reduced frequency to 15 and 30 minutes.[28][29]
Station layout
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Northbound | ← 1 Line toward Northgate (Columbia City) |
Southbound | 1 Line toward Angle Lake (Rainier Beach) → |
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
Othello station consists of two
Art
Othello station also houses three
The station's pictogram depicts a deer, which lived in the Othello area until the last of the population was relocated in the 1950s. It was created by Christian French as part of the Stellar Connections series and its points represent nearby destinations, including the Othello Playground, NewHolly neighborhood, and the Seattle Public Library's NewHolly branch.[39][40]
Services
Othello station is part of the 1 Line, which runs from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport through the Rainier Valley, Downtown Seattle, and the University of Washington campus to Northgate. It is the fifth northbound station from Angle Lake and fourteenth southbound station from Northgate, and is situated between Rainier Beach and Columbia City stations. 1 Line trains serve Othello twenty hours a day on weekdays and Saturdays, from 5:00 am to 1:00 am, and eighteen hours on Sundays, from 6:00 am to 12:00 am; during regular weekday service, trains operate roughly every eight to ten minutes during rush hour and midday operation, respectively, with longer headways of fifteen minutes in the early morning and twenty minutes at night. During weekends, 1 Line trains arrive at Othello station every ten minutes during midday hours and every fifteen minutes during mornings and evenings. The station is approximately fifteen minutes from SeaTac/Airport station and 23 minutes from Westlake station in Downtown Seattle.[41] In 2019, an average of 2,879 passengers boarded Link trains at Othello station on weekdays.[1]
Othello station is also served by three bus routes operated by
Metro also runs the Route 97 Link Shuttle, a shuttle service serving Link stations along surface streets during Link service disruptions, between Downtown and Rainier Valley stations.[46] During the annual Seafair, free shuttle buses were used between Othello station and hydroplane races on Lake Washington at Genesee Park until 2013, when they moved to Columbia City station.[47][48]
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