SeattlePI.com: Streetcar

I'll forgo the easy jokes. The article concerns an urban streetcar in Seattle.

RC: Streetcar Questions Linger

An interesting article from Roll Call (subscription required). Interviews with Anwar Saleem (expressing doubt about streetcars and musing about a Circulator style bus) and Joseph Fengler (a strong advocate of streetcars who lobbied DDOT to combine laying down the tracks with the streetscape project). Points of interest:
1. 3 phases of construction (3rd-7th, 7th-11th, 11-14th [story says last section covers 7th-14th, but I think that's a typo])
2. 2.5 yrs projected total construction
3. streetcars up and running within 5 years
*Either way we better settle in for a longterm relationship with street construction.