[PRCo] Fw: Seattle Starts Testing Streetcar Line
Jim Holland
PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com
Tue Nov 20 18:23:29 EST 2007
"Damon Hill" wrote in message news:...
> "Bernard Farquart" wrote in
> news:F8qdnT8oi8NtJLfanZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d at comcast.com:
>
> > yeah, it's great. 52 million dollars so people can avoid a ten-minute
> > walk.
>
> The streetcar line, originally known as the South Lake Union Trolley
> (aka, the SLUT), is envisioned as the first leg of an expanded line
> that would branch out to the University of Washington and elsewhere.
> It differs from the planned light rail line that will also go there
> in that it's a surface, street-running line.
>
> It ends just across the street from another Seattle ironic icon, the
> monorail line to Seattle Center (and not much else).
>
> --Damon
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