Chief
12-10-2007, 10:21 AM
There's no <a href="http://clarkblog.org/index.php/topic,2478.0.html"> S.L.U.T. </a> like an old <a href="http://clarkblog.org/index.php/topic,2478.0.html"> S.L.U.T. </a>....
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http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/deja_vu_all_over_again_seattle.html
On the brink of an economic boom, Seattle businessmen promoted a streetcar line along Westlake Avenue, where they dreamed the tracks would spark more business and home construction.
The year was 1890.
Built in just five days, the Lake Union line became part of a 70-mile collection of electric and cable-car lines that put Seattle on the cutting edge of transit innovation when the 20th century arrived. The streetcar age ended in 1941, when the system succumbed to money shortages, new highways and buses.
More than half a century after, another streetcar is coming to South Lake Union. The line, which opens Wednesday, is the first ...
**SCHNIPP**
Remember, this is being driven by Development, not a Transit need...
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http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/12/deja_vu_all_over_again_seattle.html
On the brink of an economic boom, Seattle businessmen promoted a streetcar line along Westlake Avenue, where they dreamed the tracks would spark more business and home construction.
The year was 1890.
Built in just five days, the Lake Union line became part of a 70-mile collection of electric and cable-car lines that put Seattle on the cutting edge of transit innovation when the 20th century arrived. The streetcar age ended in 1941, when the system succumbed to money shortages, new highways and buses.
More than half a century after, another streetcar is coming to South Lake Union. The line, which opens Wednesday, is the first ...
**SCHNIPP**
Remember, this is being driven by Development, not a Transit need...