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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with the roundup of today's top stories. It is Thursday, March 26th.

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We just got to ride the new light rail connection across Lake Washington.

By we, I mean our producer Brooklyn did.

Today's sound transit gave the news media a preview.

Engineering and operations expert Craig DeLala explained that they've been testing the trains

at a special facility in Colorado.

But what we did is we built a simulated area where we have the track bridges, and we had

hydraulic cylinders that could move them around to simulate the lake.

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