Trolley Update

The Port of Seattle today offered land for a new trolley barn to be built about a mile north of the current, endangered-by-the-sculpture-park trolley barn, on Port-owned land near the Grain Terminal. The Port has also offered to lay the trolley track, but they won't pay to build the barn. You can read the full press release here. And you can read a press release from Ron Sims, who likes the idea, here.

Nice gesture, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions, such as: How about the fact that SAM's plan for the sculpture park--which they have suggested is prohibitively expensive to revise--doesn't include trolley tracks running through it? Is it okay to run a trolley through Myrtle Edwards Park?

As you know, Seattlest loves Myrtle Edwards Park. In fact, we are about to go knock out five miles there. We're a little queasy at the thought of sacrificing park space to extend the trolley rails northward--but we're even queasier to think that SAM's sculpture park will swallow up the M.E. parking lot that allows all sorts of people to access the park (or just sit in their cars, eat their lunches, and soak in the views).

First we Save Our Streetcar...now we expect a Save Our Park coalition to jump into the mix.