Central Link is a light rail line serving 16 stations in Seattle and its southern suburbs, in the U.S. state of Washington. Managed by Sound Transit, it travels 20 miles (32 km) between University of Washington and Angle Lake stations. The line connects the university campus, Downtown Seattle, the Rainier Valley, and Sea–Tac Airport. Central Link runs at a maximum frequency of every six minutes during peak periods, and in 2018 carried an average of 72,000 daily passengers on weekdays. Trains have two or three cars that can each carry 194 passengers and accommodate wheelchairs and bicycles. Construction of the light rail system began in 2003 and the first section opened on July 18, 2009, terminating at Westlake and Tukwila International Boulevard stations. The line was extended to the airport in December 2009, the university in March 2016, and Angle Lake in September 2016; further extensions are planned between 2021 and 2024.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Link

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1976:

At the Olympic Games in Montreal, Nadia Comăneci became the first person to score a perfect 10 in a modern Olympics gymnastics event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci

1989:

American actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, eventually prompting the passage of anti-stalking laws in California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer

1995:

Selena's album Dreaming of You, instrumental in popularizing Tejano music, was released posthumously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_of_You_%28Selena_album%29

2012:

A suicide bomber attacked an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria, which led the European Union to list the military branch of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Burgas_bus_bombing

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

get someone's goat: (informal) To annoy or infuriate someone. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_someone%27s_goat

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Fortune, good or ill, as I take it, does not change men and women. It but develops their character. As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write, so the heart is a secret even to him (or her) who has it in his own breast. Who hath not found himself surprised into revenge, or action, or passion, for good or evil, whereof the seeds lay within him, latent and unsuspected, until the occasion called them forth?   --William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray