Obsolete

That would be me, not the streetcar. Richard Borkowski, in a comment to a Ted Van Dyk post at Crosscut, says “However, with the advent of web 2.0 and social networking, we found that younger people are not interested in attending meetings, planning actions and making comments at hearings or even writing letters to the editor. So in 2008, we shut down our group.”

Mayor Mike McGinn can get a number one rating for more light rail in a poll posted at his website, but you sure couldn’t prove it by me. After 6 months or maybe a year of blogging here, I don’t see any on-the-ground effort at bringing back the George Benson Streetcar.

I could be, living on the Tahuya Peninsula, out of the loop. Who are we kidding, I’m so out of the loop I can’t even see the loop.

Could great things leaven from this new social ferment? Maybe so. And if so, a good place to start would be connecting the enthusiasm for light rail shown in the Mayor’s poll with the streetcar we once had.

Just sayin’…