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The southbound platform at Columbia City Station
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Location | 4818 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S Seattle, Washington |
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Owned by | Sound Transit | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | King County Metro | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Surface | ||||||||||
Parking | Paid parking nearby | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Bicycle lockers | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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Opened | July 18, 2009 | ||||||||||
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Passengers | 2,578 daily boardings (2017) | ||||||||||
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Columbia City is a light rail station located in Seattle, Washington. It is situated between the Othello and Mount Baker stations on the Central Link line, which runs from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington as part of the Link light rail system. The station consists of two at-grade side platforms between South Alaska Street and South Edmunds Street in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South in the Columbia City neighborhood, part of Seattle's Rainier Valley.
The station opened on July 18, 2009. Trains serve the station twenty hours a day on most days; the headway between trains is six minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Columbia City station is also served by two King County Metro bus routes that connect it to Mount Baker, Renton and West Seattle.
Columbia City station is located in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way between Alaska and Edmunds streets in the Columbia City neighborhood of Seattle's Rainier Valley. It is approximately six blocks west of the neighborhood's central business district and designated historic district, centered on Rainier Avenue.