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 ...

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, ...

Sound Transit riders were detoured down the emergency stairs to reach trains for about an hour Friday afternoon at University of Washington Station — because both downward escalators to the light-rail ...

Bad escalators have stranded you at light rail stations, and Sound Transit says they want to make it right. So how about this: stairs ... and some new escalators! All the escalators at the Husky ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — Sound Transit is planning massive upgrades for the four downtown Seattle light rail stations. Aging elevators and escalators are set to be replaced after years of issues and headaches for ...