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Funny picture just turned up in the Seattlest Flickr Pool:
In the neighborhood where I work (South Lake Union) there is a fairly unpopular project going on to create a trolley line that serves no real transportation purpose other than perhaps to give some office workers more places to eat lunch. In the meantime the construction of this project is wreaking havoc with all other attempts to get around, and the tracks are an enormous safety hazard to bicyclists.Thus I was amused to see this sign up today, as well as the shirts for sale in Kapow! (a great local coffee shop). I would buy one if I could wear it to work, that probably wouldn't go over very well though.
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It's easy to laugh and grumble about it now that everything is torn up and everybody is inconvenienced. However, when it becomes useful (hopefully, it will be reasonably well managed), it just might turn into something nice. There are even bright-eyed plans for it to be eventually extend to the U-District, if I'm not mistaken.
That said, the poster is pretty funny.
I swear, hundred dollar bills could rain from the heavens and Seattle residents would find a reason to complain about it.
Though I agree the poster is amusing.
Has anyone noticed that it currently ends in the middle of nowhere? I don't even know where the west end goes, but the east end does not turn, it does not look to have more construction, it simply stops in the middle of the street near the parking for I love sushi and what not?
I don't understand.
@2 I'm honestly curious what positive can be seen about this project. It serves a an area already well served by bus transportation, hell its only 1.2 miles to walk from the lake to Westlake Mall. In return we get yet more dangers for cyclists, two years of closed roads and sidewalks, and an almost certain worsening of traffic in an area that is already going to degrade substantially when the huge influx of condo/retirement residences come. I'm supposed to be happy about this? And rely on Seattle to manage it properly after the monorail fiasco? Puhlease.
Agree with #4 -- the SLUT is little more than a duplication of the #17 bus route (a very small part of the #17). The capital costs were large enough to start with, and I belive the City will have to fund a large chunk of operating costs as well.
Leave transportation planning to the County.
Who gives a fuck about cyclists? Danger to cyclists? LOL, that's no reason to stop anything.
Your mama cares about cyclists. Perhaps you should try to be more like her.
Nobodies complaining! It's the god's honest truth that when Pauland Pickels came in to rebuild the area they called it the South Lake Union Trolley for years! And we love our new trolley and new neighborhood. We didn't like our small businesses or the friendships that we built over the course of our lives anyways. Who could be mad or upset and why! We just really want to get behind the S.L.U.T. The t-shirts could say F@!K the S.L.U.T. but they doesn't. They are encouraging people to Get Behind the S.L.U.T. This is the God'd honest true story of the Trolley as witnessed by all who have lived here for at least 10 years.
As legend has it, when the locals powers that be began their extensive and overwhelming redevelopment of the Cascade neighborhood in Seattle, they decided to rename the 100 year old neighborhood South Lake Union. One of the major projects slated for the area was the S.L.U.T., the South Lake Union Trolley. However, once the powers that be realized the unfortunate and embarrassing acronym this created they quickly scrapped the trolley label opting to call the new train a "streetcar". However the long time denizens of the Cascade neighborhood took a liking to the original name and decided to keep it. Thus this somewhat silly yet endearing story of wealth and power gone slightly awry is commemorated in these limited edition South Lake Union Trolley T-shirts.
Cyclists are the only considerate people on the road these days. Considering what is happening to this planet, cars should be outlawed and oil consumption should be rationed. Selfish drivers speeding around in their death machines get me sick.
I was lucky enough to be at Kapow the morning that the T-shirts came in. I bought one, brought it to my office and wore it all day. Now almost everyone in my office has the shirt and we are going to be riding the trolly with them on the day it opens! And yes, we will be going to Westlake for lunch and then riding the trolly back. Having said that, people need to know that there are only a few places in SLU to eat and play and there are more than 2000 people who will be moving into just 2 buildings on the same block. It's really nice to think that since they are taking away all of the parking around our offices, we will be able to commute by bus/ trolly.
I have no opinion on the trolley line itself, but the shirt and the sign are another example of how this culture assigns a "bad" label to something - call it female, or more specifically, a female who has sex. And then make jokes about riding "her." And that bothers me.
It's been 2 1/2 years since I started my job in the South Lake Union neighborhood. My walk spans from Capitol Hill to a lakeside building (2.5 miles each way!) and I think I've probably put in a few thousand miles to date. (You do the math because I don't care about numbers)... I've seen the changes happen slowly and painfully these past months and will miss the classic buildings. This SLUT doesn't aid me at all in getting from point A to point B and can't see it as anything other than a selling point for condo people, something of an expensive toy funded by taxpayers. I'll keep my walking shoes.
PS - Vulcan - fuck you. I hate you so much for installing your pretentious shithole buildings that only rude WASP's would buy into. It's looking a lot like Bellevue and I want the fuck out.
Cheerio then,
Tiff
I resent that you called me a rude WASP for purchasing a beautiful condo in the area.
If you were around when the Space Needle or Monorail were being built, you'd probably be in a uproar about that also. Oh no, they're putting a Jillian's in. Who needs to play pool and games! Those Bastards! Get a clue, it's progress and it's great for the area.
The S.L.U.T. will be great for the area for many years to come.
Quit with the prejudging and just get out Tiff. Nobody wants you around anyways.
Sure, the SLUT will be great for the folks who live there.
But what about the other 95% of Seattleites? You know, the ones who actually paid (and will continue to pay) for the damn thing?
I have no problem subsidizing actual transit, but it pains me to see this travesty, which amounts to little more than an adult-sized choo-choo set for the Vulcan crowd. It adds no capacity and no efficiency to our transit/transportation grid.
Complain to the City Vulcan Pickels or Paul himself about the S.L.U.T. acronym. They are the people that created it and what else can a person do but ride a trolley?!
Well I hear you Tiff, you're a lone ranger in condoland. Say goodbye to solid living and hello to the winos. You should NOT get out. Tell those care driving folks to get out. Give em hell.
oops I meant car driving.
Come on everybody! Let's just all Get Behind the S.L.U.T.!!
Saw the shirt, and it is great. That said, I think everyone should know that the actual name of the object in question is the South Lake Union Street Car. I know SLUST isn't as funny, but it is accurate.
And if you're intereste in the route, go to the City's website (not that hard) and you'll notice it connects Fred Hutch, past Center for Wooden Boats, Lake Union Park, past businesses along Westlake, and ending at Westlake Mall.
About the comments of the SLU neighborhood having adequate public transit...do you live or work here?!!!
Compare this: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/images/SLU%20Streetcar%20Route%204_11_06.jpg
with this: http://transit.metrokc.gov/cftemplates/show_map.cfm?BUS_ROUTE=017&DAY_NAV=WSU
and tell me that they're not the same thing. An additional two blocks to Fred Hutch hardly qualifies as expansion.
#19 You are incorrect. It was indeed originally (2001) called the South Lake Union Trolley. That is a verifiable fact. You can search the Seattle Times, USA today, Stranger and city council and Cascade Neighborhood council meeting transcriprts. It ws indeed refered to repeatedly by the Powers that Be as the South Lake Union Trolley. Reread #8. That is the true backstory as seen firsthand by all who have lived and worked here for 10 years or more. However once they realized the silly acronym they created they changed it to "streetcar" which is in fact the exact same thing as a trolley. However for your illumination, they have now backtracked even further and are now calling it the "Seattle streetcar' as of a few months ago. Oh now someone can make Brown shirts with S.S. on them ala Nazi Germany!
The website is up!
www.ridetheslut.com
or www.ridetheslutshirts.com
Far from serving no purpose, being loved by no one and ending in the middle of nowhere, the slut is a great boon to property developers. Within 5 years it will produce tens to hundreds of millions in increased property values. Those condos, and the starbucks, wolfgang pucks, and diesel stores that come with them are nothing to shake a stick at.
Get the shirts at Kapow! Coffee or www.ridetheslut.com !! To funny!
Now every uncreative peson with a beefy T and sharpie is making these!? Get the origianl at kapow! or at www.ridetheslut.com
Ride the S.L.U.T. South Lake Union Trolley
I love the funny Kapow Coffee people and the whole Ride the S.L.U.T. campaign. they are brilliant and should be in movies or have their own talk show or something. These guys are witty as hell and funny as f@!ck. I got my shirt today and it is legendary. Go to Kapow! and get yours or go to www.ridetheslut.com and order it online!