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Link light rail stations in Seattle

Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

Angle Lake station

Angle Lake station is a Link light rail station in SeaTac, Washington.

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In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countries, an architectural firm is a company that offers architectural services.

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Beacon Hill, Seattle

Beacon Hill is a hill and neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington.

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Beer Sheva Park

Be'er Sheva Park is a small park located on Lake Washington in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

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Bicycle locker

A bicycle locker or bike box is a locker or box in which bicycles can be placed and locked, usually 1 or 2 per locker.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington

Bryn Mawr-Skyway (pronounced from Welsh for "big hill") is a census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States.

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Bus stop

A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus.

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Buster Simpson

Lewis Cole "Buster" Simpson (born in 1942) is an American sculptor and environmental artist based in Seattle, Washington.

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Capitol Hill, Seattle

Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Central District, Seattle

The Central Area, commonly called the Central District or The CD,Mary T. Henry,, HistoryLink, March 10, 2001.

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Chief Sealth Trail

The Chief Sealth Trail is a multi-use recreational trail in Seattle, Washington.

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Crosscut.com

The Cascade PBS newsroom, formerly Crosscut.com, is an American nonprofit news website based in Seattle.

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Downtown Seattle

Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington.

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Farmers' market

A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.

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First Hill, Seattle

First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Food cart

A food cart is a mobile kitchen set up on the street to prepare and sell street food to passers-by.

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Georgetown, Seattle

Georgetown is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.

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Headway

Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system measured in space or time.

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Heron

Herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 72 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.

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Innovation district

Innovation districts are urban geographies of innovation where R&D strong institutions, companies, and other private actors develop integrated strategies and solutions to develop thriving innovation ecosystems–areas that attract entrepreneurs, startups, and business incubators.

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Intersection (road)

An intersection or an at-grade junction is a junction where two or more roads converge, diverge, meet or cross at the same height, as opposed to an interchange, which uses bridges or tunnels to separate different roads.

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Island platform

An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange.

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Joint venture

A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.

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King County Metro

King County Metro, officially the King County Metro Transit Department and often shortened to Metro, is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle.

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Kubota Garden

Kubota Garden is a Japanese garden in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

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KUOW-FM

KUOW-FM (94.9 MHz) is a National Public Radio member station in Seattle, Washington.

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Light industry

Light industry are industries that usually are less capital-intensive than heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consumer goods.

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Light rail

Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.

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Link light rail

Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Lower Queen Anne, Seattle

Lower Queen Anne (officially known since 2021 as Uptown) is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill.

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A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways.

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Metro station

A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway".

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface.

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Mount Baker, Seattle

Mount Baker is a neighborhood in southeast Seattle.

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Multifamily residential

Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU)) is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. Units can be next to each other (side-by-side units), or stacked on top of each other (top and bottom units).

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Northgate station (Sound Transit)

Northgate is a light rail and bus station in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Rainier Beach station and Northgate station (Sound Transit) are link light rail stations in Seattle.

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Northgate, Seattle

Northgate is a neighborhood in north Seattle, Washington, named for and surrounding Northgate Mall, the first covered mall in the United States.

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Othello station

Othello station is a light rail station located in Seattle, Washington. Rainier Beach station and Othello station are 2009 establishments in Washington (state), link light rail stations in Seattle and railway stations in the United States opened in 2009.

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Pear

Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in late summer into mid-autumn.

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Pedestrian crossing

A pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk in American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road, street or avenue.

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Percent for art

The term percent for art refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where a fee, usually some percentage of the project cost, is placed on large scale development projects in order to fund and install public art.

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Pictogram

A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.

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Pocket track

A pocket track, tail track, or reversing siding (UK: centre siding, turnback siding) is a rail track layout which allows trains to park off the main line.

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Public art

Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process.

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Puget Sound Business Journal

The Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ) is a weekly American City Business Journals publication containing articles about business people, issues, and events in the greater Seattle, Washington area.

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Puget Sound Regional Council

The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) is a metropolitan planning organization that develops policies and makes decisions about transportation planning, economic development, and growth management throughout the four-county Seattle metropolitan area surrounding Puget Sound.

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Rainier Beach High School

Rainier Beach High School is a public secondary school (grades 9-12) in the Seattle Public Schools system.

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Rainier Beach, Seattle

Rainier Beach is a set of neighborhoods in Seattle, Washington that are mostly residential.

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Rainier Valley, Seattle

The Rainier Valley is a district in southeast Seattle.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Renton, Washington

Renton is a city in King County, Washington, United States, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle.

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Rush hour

A rush hour (American English, British English) or peak hour (Australian English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest.

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SeaTac/Airport station

SeaTac/Airport station is a light rail station in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. Rainier Beach station and SeaTac/Airport station are 2009 establishments in Washington (state) and railway stations in the United States opened in 2009.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Seattle Department of Transportation

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is a municipal government agency in Seattle, Washington that is responsible for the maintenance of the city's transportation systems, including roads, bridges, and public transportation.

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Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the public library system serving the city of Seattle, Washington.

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Seattle–Tacoma International Airport

Seattle–Tacoma International Airport is the primary international airport serving Seattle and its metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Single-family detached home

A single-family detached home, also called a single-detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or separate house is a free-standing residential building.

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Sound Transit

Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Substation

A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.

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System of units of measurement

A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other.

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Tactile paving

Tactile paving (also called tenji blocks, truncated domes, detectable warnings, tactile tiles, tactile ground surface indicators, tactile walking surface indicators, or detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground surface indicators found at roadsides (such as at curb cuts), by and on stairs, and on railway station platforms, to assist pedestrians who are vision impaired.

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Textile

Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.

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Town square

A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.

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Transit district

A transit district or transit authority is a government agency or a public-benefit corporation created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region.

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Transit-oriented development

In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport.

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Trolleybuses in Seattle

The Seattle trolleybus (or trolley) system forms part of the public transportation network in the city of Seattle, Washington, operated by King County Metro.

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Tukwila International Boulevard station

Tukwila International Boulevard station is a light rail station in Tukwila, Washington, United States. Rainier Beach station and Tukwila International Boulevard station are 2009 establishments in Washington (state) and railway stations in the United States opened in 2009.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Westlake station (Sound Transit)

Westlake station is a light rail station that is part of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel in Seattle, Washington, United States. Rainier Beach station and Westlake station (Sound Transit) are link light rail stations in Seattle and railway stations in the United States opened in 2009.

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1 Line (Sound Transit)

The 1Line, formerly Central Link, is a light rail line in Seattle, Washington, United States, and part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system. Rainier Beach station and 1 Line (Sound Transit) are 2009 establishments in Washington (state).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Beach_station

Also known as Rainier Beach (Link station), Rainier Beach Station (Link station).

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