Councilmember Herbold Probes for Weakness at Streetcar Briefing
On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council was briefed on the Center City Connector project, which was recently backed by Mayor Jenny Durkan. The project...
Sunday Video: The Seattle Streetcar Is Back On Track
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The Downtown Seattle Association has released as short video celebrating Mayor Jenny Durkan's decision to move forward on building the Center City Connector. The...
Mayor Durkan Backs Streetcar, Pledges to Seek Funding Solution with Council
Yesterday Mayor Jenny Durkan released the long-awaited engineering review of the Center City Connector streetcar project and announced she was supporting the project. The...
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...