Eight more miles of light rail tracks will open to the public this weekend when service expands from Angle Lake south to downtown Federal Way Saturday morning.

Public transit advocates have been waiting for service to Federal Way since it was approved by voters under ST 2 in 2008. Then came the housing bubble and the Great Recession. Plans for the extension were postponed and then folded into the new ST 3, approved by voters in 2016.

King County Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer, who represents south King County, admitted at a celebration earlier this year that he never thought this would happen.

“South King County’s always felt it’s the poor stepchild when it comes to transportation,” he said. “This is the beginning of being accepted into the full family, whether we have recrea

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