Streetcar Improvements Come to South Lake Union, Others On The Way
In November, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) rolled out the first of three rounds of planned speed and reliability improvements to the north...
Streetcar Review Confirms Robust Ridership Projections, Durkan Continues Delay
The long-awaited consultant report on the Center City Connector is finally out, and while sticker shock has been dominating the headlines, the case for...
The Full Case for Seattle’s Center City Streetcar
The Urbanist has been banging the drum for following through on long-laid plans to build the Center City Connector to connect Seattle's two orphan...
Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Streetcars Are Not Real Transit: Budapest Edition
Modern American streetcars have a bad rap. Partially this is self-inflicted. Several American transit agencies have planned streetcars doomed with routes that are too...
Long Promised Center City Streetcar Would Be a Boon to First Hill
Within a year, 1,400 new housing units will come online in First Hill, which is already one of Seattle’s densest neighborhoods, as well as...
The Unfinished Promise of the Center City Connector
Pioneer Square has the most to potentially lose--but also gain--from the connection of Seattle’s downtown streetcar lines.
During her daily commute into Pioneer Square...
Seattle Needs Streetcars
‘Streetcar’ seems to be a dirty word in Seattle. In January, I proposed my own redesign of NE 65th St to the city, which received...
Mayor Durkan Claims Streetcar Won’t Fit Tracks Despite All Evidence to the Contrary
The front page of yesterday's The Seattle Times read "Seattle's new streetcars may be too big for tracks." It was a shocking headline--too shocking to be...