Bring Back the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line in Seattle!
Participation Critical at June 26 Waterfront Meeting
The planners managing the June 6 Open House for the Center City Connector don’t seem very interested in the Waterfront Streetcar. Please attend anyway, and make our voices heard.
But Tom Gibbs says …
All Aboard? The Strange Case of the Seattle Waterfront Trolley
…Seattle’s central waterfront is getting a huge, decade-long face-lift: a new tunnel for State Route 99, a new ferry dock, a new seawall, pedestrian promenades, maybe even a mist machine
The online petition at Change.org to save the Seattle Waterfront Streetcar has received over 1,000 signatures. The latest coverage from Seattle Sketcher in the Seattle Times put us over the top. But please don’t stop signing!…
…Hey Seattleites, did you ever ride the Waterfront Streetcar line before it was dismantled eight years ago? Would you like to ride the vintage trolleys again? I’m asking readers to vote on my poll at http://www.seattletimes.com/
seattlesketcher, where you
Port of Seattle Commissioner John Creighton posts on Facebook:
…I’d love to see the street car back. It would be great for those of us who work on the Central Waterfront as well as visitors to the Sculpture Park
Please encourage “urban connectors” like the Waterfront Streetcar!
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A study by transportation planner Peter J. Voorhees shows that the Waterfront Streetcar line is an important component of citywide transit mobility. Voorhees proposes frequent service, to be provided by both vintage and modern streetcars (as is done on San …
We’re approaching 1,000 signatures on our petition! We’ll want to send it to the Mayor and Council when they’re considering options for waterfront transportation, likely sometime this summer.
We are increasingly optimistic about our ultimate success, and the petition …
…A quirky part of Seattle’s not-so-distant past could come back to life in the form of the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line.
Some prominent citizens are backing the plan, and city officials are interested.
“It is something we have been
…Group hopes to bring back Seattle’s waterfront trolleys
SEATTLE — A plan is in the works to bring back a piece of Seattle history — the vintage trolleys on the city’s waterfront.
The group behind the effort said the plan