[PRCo] Re: Seattle Street Car Service

[Schneider Fred]

I rode it circa 2003 or 2004.   The conductor and motorman didn't  
want to go all the way to the end of the line.   They wanted a long  
smoke break.   When I pointed out that our automobile was parked at  
the end of the line and that is where we wanted to go, the conductor  
was visibly angry.   She snarled at me.   When we got there she  
looked at the two of us and said not to waste any time getting the  
hell off the car.   With people like her around, I really don't miss  
that service.   Or I surely don't miss the bitch.

fws

On Aug 9, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jerry MATT Matsick wrote:

> 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!
>
> -------------- Original message from Fred Schneider  
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>> You have to watch this flick of Fast Freddy at work......
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ACh4mAEt8
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