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May 3, 2022 - Light rail gives UW students housing choices
5/3/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
As the light rail expands, so do housing options for UW students.
With more stations opening, students can live farther from campus in more affordable housing. The trade-off? Longer commutes.
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May 3, 2022 - Light rail gives UW students housing choices
5/3/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
With more stations opening, students can live farther from campus in more affordable housing. The trade-off? Longer commutes.
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(instrumental music) As the light rail expands, so do housing options for University of Washington students.
The completion of the light rail's Northgate Link Extension last year added three new stations to North Seattle, including one just two blocks from the north end of U-Dub's Seattle campus.
With unlimited light rail and bus rides provided to students, living farther from campus became more accessible.
Zulkifli Sales, who is studying geography data science, lives in South Seattle with his mother.
To attend classes in person, his commute takes about one hour.
Sales said living closer to campus would be easier, but being away from family and the cost of residence halls, which can be up to $3,000 a quarter, are deterring factors.
With more stations opening, students can live farther from campus in more affordable housing.
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