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Does Seattle offer the path forward for national streetcar movement?


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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 28 March 2015 - 07:46 PM

The Transport Politic, 3/23/15:


Does Seattle offer the path forward for the national streetcar movement?

 

During its first four years of operation, Seattle’s South Lake Union streetcar—the nation’s second modern streetcar (after Portland’s)—recorded rapidly growing ridership. Annual passenger counts on the 1.3-mile line increased from 413,000 in 2008 to 750,000 in 2012 (about 3,000 riders on a peak summer day). The figures reflected the blossoming of the South Lake Union neighborhood into an extension of the downtown business district, as well as the region’s growth as a whole (Seattle is one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities) and the strong performance of transit there.

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Posted 29 March 2015 - 10:42 AM

Good to see that our puny SLU line is touted as a possible national example.  Many in the city still consider this line a "toy train" and love to mock it.  One has only to look at recent scathing entries on the Seattle Transit Blog First Hill Testing thread.  No matter.  Hopefully we are on to something here and the future will be bright for a streetcar network in Seattle.


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Posted 29 March 2015 - 11:04 AM

And we should be happy to see that Seattle may have found the answer to its dilemma over what type of transit should be used throughout the city.  With SLU and the upcoming First Hill lines, the basis for an interconnected system is there. 

 

There was a time not too long ago that Seattle was setting their sights on the Monorail, just because they happen to have the last survivor of what was basically an amusement park attraction from the 1960's era still running (albeit with some problems and poor foresight) all these years later.



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