Hi everyone,
Recently the City announced the preferred alignment for the Center City Connector – the streetcar line that will provide a connection between the South Lake Union and First Hill lines. It will run on 1st Avenue from S. …
Bring Back the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line in Seattle!
Hi everyone,
Recently the City announced the preferred alignment for the Center City Connector – the streetcar line that will provide a connection between the South Lake Union and First Hill lines. It will run on 1st Avenue from S. …
Mike James, the former News Anchor/Reporter at KING-TV, posted on Facebook:
I’m still ticked that the waterfront streetcar, a realized dream of the late George Benson, was big-footed off the tracks by the Sculpture Park construction, apparently never
The Save Our Streetcar campaign’s t-shirts are officially available online!
We have set a goal of selling 50 shirts in the next 10 days in order for them to be printed.
The shirts are selling at cost, meaning we are …
From Tom Gibbs:
…Happy 4th everyone.
Many, many thanks to all of you who attended the waterfront transit meeting last week. For those of you who couldn’t attend, you’ll find a summary of the presentations below.
About 300 folks were
From Tom Gibbs:
…Many thanks for all you did to make Wednesday evening’s event a success.
I was impressed by how many folks we got to attend the affair and how uniformly they voiced their support for the vintage cars.
From Tom Gibbs:
…I met the City’s senior engineering staff last week and reviewed their findings regarding transportation options for the waterfront. The GREAT news is that they found a site for a maintenance base for the vintage cars!! The
David Brewster writes in Crosscut about the failure of Seattle to have a strong planning vision. While his article doesn’t have much to say about transit, it echoes something Charles Hamilton wrote just a couple of days ago.
…Seattle’s piecemeal
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