If it feels to you like certain light rail escalators tend to break down often, you’re not wrong. Some escalators break so frequently, in fact, that Sound Transit is paying more than half of what it ...

Sound Transit's light rail station escalators malfunction so frequently that the report containing all their recent breakdowns was so massive it crashed my computer. Three times. During 2017 and 2018, ...

The University of Washington light-rail station isn’t quite a year old, but its escalators are malfunctioning. Three were idle midweek, after breakdowns at neighboring Capitol Hill Station that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Passenger “misuse,” rather than anything Sound Transit could control, is to blame for most escalator failures, according to Sound ...

Frustrated Link light rail riders say they have had it with escalators and elevators at light rail stations that don’t work. Even Sound Transit admits it is having trouble keeping up with the problems ...

Sound Transit has given up on its failure-prone escalators at University of Washington Station next to Husky Stadium, and says they’ll be replaced soon by a combination of stairs and stronger ...

It's become a common annoyance at the newest light rail stations in Seattle -- a sign telling commuters an escalator is out-of-service. An “up” escalator at the Capitol Hill stop was closed during the ...

Getting all the way up and down to the platform at the University of Washington light rail station has often been easier said than done, thanks to the prone-to-breakdown escalators installed there.

SEATTLE — Sound Transit is hoping to improve riders' experience on Link light rail trains by bringing some changes to the transit system in 2023. On Wednesday, Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm said the ...

As Nathalie mentioned last week, the escalators at the UW light station break down... a LOT. If you're into sweating hard, breathing heavy, and risking arrest, it might not be such a big deal for you ...

SEATTLE - A small child was injured in an accident on an escalator at the University Street light rail station in Seattle Friday night. It happened just after 7:00 p.m. on an escalator headed down ...