Sound Transit's next challenge, after the line opens July 18, is to forge a transportation and psychological bond between the stop on Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Way South and the bustle on Rainier. Otherwise, ridership will sag.

"It is a six-minute walk," said Shelley Morrison of the Columbia City Business Association. "I don't think anybody knows what people's patterns are going to be."

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