Lobby the Waterfront Committee
As reported by Erica Barnett, Mayor McGinn and three members of the City Council have asked the Waterfront Committee to speed up their work in drawing up a laundry list of items to be included in planning the central waterfront. That’s “speed up” as in “wrap up by the end of April”, or, in human years, roughly tomorrow.
It’s time to stop telling me how nice it would be to see a streetcar on the waterfront and tell them. What? You don’t know where they are or how to tell them? Well, my excuse is that I live 50 miles from Seattle- what’s yours? Find out where they are- and when you do, leave it here in comments for the rest of us, s’il vous plait.
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Given the speed the plans for the post-viaduct waterfront seem to be happening it is time to make sure a streetcar line is part of the future plans.
You don’t happen to know any organized effort along these lines do you? I’d even settle for a facebook group.
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I’ve told BOTH the Waterfront- and Seattle Streetcar-related parties about the revival of the WFSC, btu they all had the same answer–
“There are no plans to revive the WFSC, 1st Ave has been identified as a possible streetcar route, and teh waterfront will be an open space.”
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Thanks for the heads-up, which led me to post about this at Orphan Road blog.
This is stupid. There is no reason why Seattle couldn’t connect a new waterfront streetcar line to the new First Hill line. A new waterfront line (using the same new streetcars as the SLUT / First Hill Line) would perform EXACTLY the same function as the First Hill line … connecting the waterfront and its attractions to LINK / Bus Tunnel at the IDS.
Such a line would connect the Olympic Sculpture Park / Myrtle Edwards Park / Seattle Aquarium / local businesses / local residents / Washington State Ferries / Victoria Island high-speed ferry / with LINK and in the future East Link as well as the First Hill Streetcar.
The waterfront deserves such a line regardless of what is or is not built on First Avenue.
Why didn’t they just take a little of the “sculputre park”, run tracks through and connect to the current street car line,
Wolah, you have a line that runs from Lake Union all the way to the stadiums, You can run tracks through and actually enhance the park with more visitors and a stop or 2 for the line.
I get so tired of overactive planning and no common sense, and thinking like government instead of a “common” person sometimes.
BRING BACK THE STREET CAR. And they don’t have to get rid of the trollys no matter what they do with the viaduct, if it was important enough to pencil it into the plans. It’s just sick to see the stations deteriorating. Maybe they should contract to a private business to run them, get the governmentease out of the way.
JW
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