Seattle Streetcar Timeline

This is a wonderful piece of research that I want to share with you, and it goes back 120 years!

A funny bit in the timeline shows voters rejecting a plan to replace trolleys with busses, only to have the plan go forward anyway without a vote (sound familiar in our political history around here?).

Seattle Streetcar Timeline

One family's Seattle streetcar heritage

Great human-interest story involving the South Lake Union Streetcar, and three generations of rail history.

One family's Seattle streetcar heritage

Ron Sims backs off Eastside rails-to-trail deadline

There are so many unanswered questions about the Woodinville Subdivision and its future. It's nice to see activity in this matter, but there is very little consensus on the appropriate way to handle it. I disagree with the article's contention that the line would prove useless as a light-rail corridor because of its location on the Eastside. Hogwash. I align with Eastside Rail Now! on this one, believing that something in place now is better than possibly something in place in the future. More hogwash from the Port of Seattle, who say that the line is in "poor shape and not upgradeable." It's a wonder anything gets done when two public bureaucracies and one private entity all try to find a win-win...

Anyway, you can read the article and make your own decision:

Ron Sims backs off Eastside rails-to-trail deadline

Design of UW light rail station on display

Everything happens in baby steps. There's been a lot of press this week about light rail and about street cars. I'm happy to see this progressing.

Design of UW light rail station on display

Streetcars: Old Idea, New Century

The South Lake Union Streetcar got a balanced write-up in the Seattle Times this morning. There are hopes - like I mentioned in a previous post - that this 1.3 mile line will morph into a city-wide system.

Just like Seattle had prior to 1941. What goes around comes around.

Local News South Lake Union streetcar on the past track Seattle Times Newspaper