You have been waiting your entire life in Seattle for this. Seriously. Even if you didn’t know you were waiting for something, you were waiting. You were waiting in traffic. You were waiting for a bus that never came. You were waiting for a cab or an Uber or a Lyft while wishing there was a cheaper option. You were waiting for the University Bridge to go up and down, or for the Montlake Bridge to go up and down, and you were asking yourself: Why, in a major city like Seattle, isn’t there a faster way to get from the north side of the city to the south side?
Now that way is here. Saturday is “launch day” for light rail service extending from downtown to Capitol Hill and the University District. There will be huge daylong parties at both stations—DJs, bands, food trucks, free bike tune-ups—celebrating the fact that you’re about to be able to get from Dick’s Drive-In to Husky Stadium, or Husky Stadium to Dick’s Drive-In, in FOUR FUCKING MINUTES, through a subway-like tunnel, at a cost of $2.25. Beat that in a car, suckas!…