THE ELUSIVE BROADWAY STREETCAR. pic.twitter.com/3BGkcNlFFs
— 27 Days (@ThatBrownRat) August 25, 2015
Last we heard in July, SDOT said “the start date is still not fixed.” There’s not much to go on but small clues here and there — an uptick in social media activity, for one — indicate we just might finally maybe be getting close. CHS kind of forgets why we were excited about the new connection to the International District and Pioneer Square in the first place. Now it’s mostly just about finally getting the trams out of the barn. So let’s turn it over to the collective wisdom of CHS readers — when, indeed, will First Hill Streetcar service begin?
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We’ve also asked SDOT, of course. We’ll let you know what we hear back. UPDATE 8/28/2015 8:45 AM: We haven’t heard back.
Interesting thing during my ride home last night: we drove behind a "testing" First Hill Streetcar. @seattledot pic.twitter.com/3Q64dF9Pvl
— Kyle Stokes (@kystokes) August 25, 2015
UPDATE 8/31/2015 9:30 AM: Bad news — 43% of the crowd says 2016:
OK, what’s funny is that most of the write-in votes are variations on “when hell freezes over”.