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Tom Gibbs on the latest Streetcar news

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. …

Posted bySaveOurStreetcarSeptember 18, 2013Posted inNews

Mike James supports restoring the Waterfront Streetcar

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
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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarAugust 29, 2013August 29, 2013Posted inNews

Support the Waterfront Streetcar with our official t-shirt!

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 …

Posted bySaveOurStreetcarAugust 23, 2013August 29, 2013Posted inNews

Happy 4th! Share your support for the Waterfront Streetcar!

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

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJuly 4, 2013July 5, 2013Posted inNews1 Comment on Happy 4th! Share your support for the Waterfront Streetcar!

Community support for streetcar evident at waterfront meeting

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.

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJune 28, 2013Posted inNews1 Comment on Community support for streetcar evident at waterfront meeting

Maintenance base location available, and other good news

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

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJune 17, 2013Posted inNews4 Comments on Maintenance base location available, and other good news

Show your support at upcoming meetings, get a sticker

Show your support for the historic waterfront streetcar!

Join us at the June 20 Belltown Community Connectors meeting

and the

June 26 Waterfront Seattle Street + Transit meeting.

Get a sticker.

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJune 14, 2013Posted inNews1 Comment on Show your support at upcoming meetings, get a sticker

Seattle urban and transit planning: a failure of vision

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

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJune 10, 2013June 10, 2013Posted inNews

We Need You to Attend the Waterfront Meeting June 26; 1,500 Signatures; Ideas Wanted

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 …

Posted bySaveOurStreetcarJune 6, 2013Posted inNews

Seattle Magazine: Will Seattle’s vintage streetcars make a triumphant return to the waterfront?

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

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Posted bySaveOurStreetcarMay 21, 2013Posted inNews

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