Yet Another Waterfront

There is yet another candidate for locating a historical streetcar in Seattle- Seward Park and Rainier Beach- an area currently underserved by transit, and well-deserving of weekend service for people who wish to go to the beach.

Columbia City and Rainier Beach were, in fact, “spawned” by the interurban to Tacoma, which originally ran through those communities. While they haven’t benefited much from the opening of LINK, they have benefited from their own community boosterism which has restored some of their former glory. Unfortunately, very little transit is provided between these communities and Seward Park and the public waterfront stretching north from Seward Park.

Without getting too deep in the weeds here, it seems like we have another area in which a historical streetcar could also provide a very useful service in providing access to public parks that have, to some degree, been neglected in overall planning efforts.