Let’s remember when ground was broken on the South Lake Union trolley, on this day in 2006 (July 7)
I know it’s called the South Lake Union Streetcar, but it’ll always be a trolley, thus leading to one of the more unfortunate acronyms across the city.
On July 7, 2006, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (b. 1955) ceremonially welds the first rail of the planned South Lake Union Streetcar line between downtown Seattle and Lake Union. U.S. Senator Patty Murray (b. 1950), state Representative Ed Murray (subsequently elected to the state Senate), King County Council Chair Larry Phillips, and other officials join Nickels at the ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on the $51 million streetcar project. The 1.3-mile line between the Westin Hotel downtown near Westlake Center and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center at the lake on Fairview Avenue N is expected to open in the fall of 2007.
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