[PRCo] Re: Seattle Street Car Service

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

Sad day in Seattle, not Sleepness in Seattle
The Seattle Waterfront Streetcar service has been "suspended" since November, 2005. The car house was demolished to may way for Olympic Sculpture Park which opened in January of 2007. Buses painted in the colors of the streetcars have been operating the service since then. 

In spite of all sorts of pious uttering from Metro and the city fathers that the streetcars are coming back, no money exists to build a new car house. The cars are in dead storage at a Metro facility. It has been reported that some of the track has been paved over. No one is in a hurry to put the streetcars back.

Seattle has inaugurated service on an expensive high-tech streetcar line and it is all the rage now. The poor old Melbourne trams seem to be forgotten. Most likely a new home awaits them or perhaps they will molder away into sentimental junk in the back of a bus garage.
--
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
You don't stop laughing because 
you grow old. You grow old 
because you stop laughing from the 
River City by the sea! 
Jacksonville, Florida!

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