A modern light rail system for Seattle was proposed in 1995, including a station at the intersection of Rainier Avenue and McClellan Street in Mount Baker. The proposal was rejected by voters on March 14, 1995, and was condensed into the Sound Move that was approved the following November, retaining the proposed station in Mount Baker. In 1999, Sound Transit, the agency charged with planning and constructing the light rail system, chose an elevated station at McClellan Street to be situated between a tunnel under Beacon Hill and a surface line on Martin Luther King Jr. Way as part of the Central Link route (now part of Line 1). The light rail station, designed by Seattle-based Boxwood and engineered by Federal Way-based BergerABAM, was tentatively named McClellan Street and unveiled to the public alongside Beacon Hill station at public hearings held in 2003. The station was named Mount Baker after the surrounding neighborhood by the Sound Transit Board in January 2005.