Early on the morning of June 6, Sound Transit got a long-awaited delivery at its Link Operations and Maintenance Facility in Seattle: the first of its new light rail vehicles.

The vehicle, which came wrapped on a flatbed truck from Sacramento, Calif., where it was manufactured by Siemens Mobility, will be joined by 151 more new Link vehicles over the next five years.

After unwrapping the vehicle and assembling some additional parts, Sound Transit debuted the vehicle to the press today.

The new vehicle features several improvements on the passenger experience over our current fleet.

Each of the new vehicles will provide 74 seats, with larger windows, a wider center-car aisle, more seats with space to stow luggage, and four bicycle hooks—twice as many as provided currently.