The line from downtown Seattle to Tukwila is scheduled to open July 18. Starting Saturday, light-rail riders will get to take a train all the way to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Least expensive: Metro Transit or Sound Transit Light Rail (Central Link), $2.75 to downtown Seattle. Station is connected to the fourth floor of airport garage via a quarter-mile covered walkway.

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Just 17 miles as the crow flies, Bremerton to SeaTac becomes a 50-plus-mile journey by car via the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and 30-plus miles via ferry to downtown Seattle.