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| Seattle Apartment Locator Services : Seattle Apartments |  | Contents | |
| Transport |
| As with almost every other city in western North America,
transportation in Seattle is dominated by automobiles, although
Seattle is just old enough that the city's layout reflects the
age when railways and streetcars dominated. These older modes
of transportation made for a relatively well-defined downtown
and strong neighborhoods at the end of several former streetcar
lines, most of them now bus lines. There is no subway, though
a bus tunnel running roughly north-south through downtown may
soon be used for light rail. There are a small number of commuter
trains from Tacoma and Everett, and an extensive system of bus
routes. |
| A monorail line constructed for the 1962 Exposition still
exists today between Seattle Center and downtown, although plans
are underway to replace it with a longer monorail to convert
it into a real commuter service. Transportation building programs
have been very controversial in recent years — the new monorail
was the subject of multiple ballot measures, even after it had
been approved, and the Sound Transit light rail project has
also been plagued with difficulties, though this light rail
is under construction as of 2005. |
| Street layout |
| Seattle's streets are laid out in a cardinal-direction grid
pattern, except in the central business district: early city
leader Arthur Denny insisted on orienting out his plat relative
to the shoreline rather than to true North, so streets meet
at unusual angles where Denny's plat meets "Doc" Maynard's
to the south and Carson Boren's to the north. This inconsistency
creates frequent confusion for those unfamiliar to Seattle when
they attempt to navigate the streets at the edges of the business
district. Largely the result of Seattle's topography, only one
street, one highway, and one freeway run uninterrupted entirely
through the city. |
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