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Transit : the story of public transportation in the Puget Sound Region /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kershner, Jim, 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : Historylink/Documentary Media, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Local transit > Washington (State) > Puget Sound Region.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a long, strange ride
  • The coming of the streetcar
  • From counterbalance to interurban
  • Derailed
  • Forward thrust and a shift into reverse
  • Profile : Jim Ellis
  • The metro mini-miracle
  • The buses go underground
  • Sidebar: a new waterfront streetcar
  • The birth of sound transit
  • Profile: Greg Nickels
  • The dark days
  • Sidebar: one track mind: Seattle's flirtation with another monorail
  • The return of rail
  • Profile: Joni Earl
  • A link to the past, a link to the future
  • A transit tour, 2018.