INSET: SEATTLE
INSET: TACOMA
ROUTES
STREETCAR ROUTE
Operator: King County Metro Transit
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Westlake Center - Fairview
& Campus Drive |
LIGHT RAIL ROUTES
Operator: Sound Transit
| Central Link |
Westlake Center - King
Street
(Union) Station - Beacon Hill - Rainier Beach - Tukwila - Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport |
| Tacoma Link |
Theater District/S 9th
Street - Union Station - Tacoma Dome |
MONORAIL ROUTE
Operator: Seattle Monorail
Services
| |
Westlake Center - Seattle
Center |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcar line: 2.1 km.
- Light rail lines: 27.7 km.
- Central Link: 25.1 km.
- Tacoma Link: 2.6 km.
- Monorail: 1.9 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-trams:
- Seattle: 1884 - ?
- Tacoma: 1888 - ?;
- Cable cars: 1887 - 1940
- Streetcars (electric):
- Seattle: 30 March 1889 - 13 Apr. 1941; 12 Dec. 2007 - today
- Tacoma: - 8 Apr. 1938
- Waterfront (tourist) streetcar: 29 May 1982 - 19 Nov. 2005
- Interurbans (electric): 1902 - 1939
- Light rail:
- Seattle: 18 July 2009 - today
- Tacoma: 22 Aug. 2003 - today
- Monorail: 24 March 1962 - today
GAUGE
- Light rail / Streetcar (2nd generation, since 2007) / Tourist streetcar: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
PRINT
- Price, J.H. "Museum News [Seattle]", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit, Jan. 1982 (45:529), p.30-31.
- Taplin, M.R. "Miraculous in Seattle", Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2009 (72:862), p.380-381.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
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