Soon, riders can take trips to Microsoft or get to downtown Bellevue in under 20 minutes. By next winter, the Eastside line should connect to Seattle.

At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.

Community members say this is a game changer for Redmond commuters as Sound Transit leaders offer yet another opportunity to ditch the I-5 traffic and take public transportation instead.