Stride stations
Stride stations will feature unique branding to make them stand out from other bus stops in the region. The raised platforms and bus shelters will be sized appropriately for their location. Raised platforms vary between 54 feet and 216 feet long and will be able to accommodate several bus shelters. Bus shelters will be either 32 or 48 feet long. Some Stride stations will also be used by King County Metro and Community Transit.
Station amenities
Your Stride experience:
- Longer platforms that can accommodate multiple buses at certain stations.
- Ticket vending machines and ORCA card readers for off-board payment.
- Real-time arrival displays, signage, and pylons .
- Raised platform and near-level boarding for passengers that will allow quick, accessible departures.
Note: Along the S3 Line route, there are four station locations in Bothell where the bus will need to lower itself to allow level-boarding due to design constraints. - Improved pedestrian access to future stations, featuring both new and restored sidewalks, better lighting, and connections to the Burke-Gilman Trail and neighborhoods.
Stride stations day and night
Day and night view of Stride stations.
Stride art experience
Each Stride shelter will have a series of artist-designed glass panels integrated into the upper portion of the windscreen. These panels will be a unique element for the Stride stations that reflect the surrounding communities. A panel of creative workers, artists, designers, and leaders from communities in Stride service areas selected Sonia Romero and Angelina Villalobos to design artwork panels for Stride stations. Angelina will design the station art for Stride S1 and S2 stations. Sonia will design the station art for Stride S3 stations.
Both artists have experience designing art for public spaces locally and outside Washington state. Both artists are familiarizing themselves with station locations and surrounding areas to develop individual station art designs. The artists will work with Judson Studios, an artisan glass studio that uses multiple glass fabrication techniques, to render their designs into glass panels. Judson and the Sound Transit Art Program have been working with the shelter design and fabrication teams to integrate these panels into the shelter assembly process, which would include safety glass panels on either side to protect the glass art.
Station names
Our initial list of Stride station names were developed to follow Sound Transit’s station-naming policy and best practices from other transit agencies in the region. After developing station names, the Sounding Board provided feedback to refine station names; however, some Stride stations still needed additional public outreach to make sure the names felt intuitive and reflected their geographic locations. In spring 2024, we led a community workshop, hosted a station naming survey, and conducted targeted outreach at future station areas. We received over 1,000 survey responses from community members helping us select station names for locations in Renton, Kirkland, and Bothell.
With consideration of public input and naming policies, the Sound Transit Board finalized and approved the following list of station names for Stride:
S1 Line:
- Burien Transit Center
- Tukwila International Blvd Station
- Renton Transit Center*
- Renton/NE 44th Station*
- Bellevue Transit Center
S2 Line:
- Bellevue Transit Center
- Kirkland/NE 85th Station*
- Totem Lake Station
- Brickyard Station
- Bothell/Woodinville Transit Center*
- Canyon Park Station
- Lynnwood City Center Station
S3 Line:
- Shoreline South/148th Station
- 15th Ave NE Station
- 30th Ave NE Station
- NE 153rd St Station
- 165th St Station
- Ballinger Way Station
- 61st Ave NE Station
- 68th Ave NE Station
- Kenmore Park-and-Ride
- 98th Ave NE Station
- 104th Ave NE Station
- UW Bothell/Cascadia College Station
- Beardslee Blvd Station
- Bothell/Woodinville Transit Center*
*Additional public input informed the name of this station.