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The Seattle Streetcar barn has this nice graphic on its west elevation. I've always wondered if the prominent huge lettering was an attempt to turn around use of the cute acronym people were first using as the name of the streetcar line linking the Cascade neighborhood and its rapid development of new buildings to house expanded biomedical and high tech web-based businesses with the downtown core. It is likely that the streetcar system will be expanded to other areas of Seattle, like First Hill. I don't hear it called the South Lake Union Trolly or S.L.U.T. much anymore. Occasionally I'll see a T-shirt like this.
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7 comments:
Heh. Everyone I know still calls it the SLUT.
love the graphic nature of this shot. One of my favorite this week is "a rivulet runs through it!" So crisp and "of the night" blue.
Municipal faux pas. Woops. Too late, it's in the local vernacular now.
I know where is shed is. It looks like it was built with future expansion in mind. It looks like it will hold a lot more trolleys than Seattle has now (two?)
There always a pigeon around to spoil the shot. :-)
That is so funny!
hooo boy....
That's a dangerous acronym...
Thanks to everyone! I guess I run in more genteel conversation circles than Anon. . .either that or the new Amazon employees to the neighborhood just haven't picked it up yet ;^).
Wayne, I thought that was a crow, and I LIKED that it was there. . .keeps boredom away :-). I hadn't considered how many streetcars were on the line right now, but there are red ones, orange ones, and purple ones, so probably at least six cars right now. I just picked up on some inklings that the system will expand. . .the Link Lightrail system (different than this streetcar system) has been the major focus for development here with the route to the airport complete and the Capitol Hill and then the University district legs coming on line rapidly and other routes on the map for later. They[ve built Amazon and other commercial space and only a portion of the buildings is occupied and already Amazon employees are complaining about the poor connection times of the streetcar to other transit systems they must use to get to work and home, especially people living in the Eastside who used to work in the International district or Beacon Hill.
-Kim
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