List of new streetcar routes revealed - Seattle Post Intelligencer

May 5th, 2008
List of new streetcar routes revealed Seattle Post Intelligencer - 14 hours ago ... as far north as Aloha St. Estimated cost: $110 million, 2.8 miles (This route also was considered by Sound Transit) A line to the University District ...

Waterfront streetcar likely won’t roll again for a decade

April 11th, 2008
Seattle's vintage waterfront streetcar, mothballed for more than two years and expected to be running again by now, probably won't return for another decade.

Waterfront streetcar: Is it gone for good? - Seattle Times

April 11th, 2008
Waterfront streetcar: Is it gone for good? Seattle Times, United States - 3 hours ago Sound Transit also wants to run a streetcar through First Hill/Capitol Hill. Desmond said a streetcar transit system would not preclude Metro from running ...

Sound Transit won't build a local streetcar system, but it could provide a springboard for one

April 9th, 2008
That's what Tacoma City Councilwoman Julie Anderson told the City Council during Tuesday's study session. Anderson, a Sound Transit board member, said the transit agency still is working on an initial plan for what a new regional transportation system might look like. It had hoped to finish by this week, but has postponed its target date from Thursday to April 24. No decision has been made whether to put something to voters this year, in 2010 or later, Anderson added. Anderson also referenced a "tug-of-war" between proponents of a north-south rail ...

Streetcars pick up traction, but will Sound Transit listen? - TheNewsTribune.com

March 23rd, 2008
Streetcars pick up traction, but will Sound Transit listen? TheNewsTribune.com, WA - Mar 23, 2008 Also this month, Sound Transit announced that its 2007 ridership jumped 12.5 percent compared to an overall US increase of 2 percent. ...

Seattle ponders addition of more streetcar lines

February 6th, 2008
The city will study six new streetcar lines, in addition to the existing South Lake Union line, which opened in December.

New streetcar lines should be in center of road, council member says

February 5th, 2008
When the city of Seattle builds more streetcar lines, the trains should run in the middle of the roadway instead of the curb lane, where...

"Streetcar hits truck Tuesday" - Seattle Post Intelligencer

January 30th, 2008
"Streetcar hits truck Tuesday" Seattle Post Intelligencer - 11 hours ago
 The article keeps them in shape for the next Sound Transit measure, Prop 2 or whatever - not to mention the soundoff pageviews generated. ...

Transportation: Can’t we all just get along?

January 22nd, 2008
An opponent of Proposition 1 opens the bidding, in hopes of finding a middle ground in the transportation wars. The peace treaty: a little more rail, no new highways, some highway fixes, unclogging arterials, tolls, and no more cute trolleys.

The Biased FTA Won’t Give Portland Its Streetcar Subsidies

December 31st, 2007
Pity the poor city of Portland. It wants to build more streetcar lines, and its Godfather Earl created a special slush fund small starts program in the recent transportation bill for such new rail lines. Only now the evil Federal Transit Administration (no doubt goaded by the evil Bush Administration) says that it will only [...]
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