After some 25 years of back and forth, planning and false starts, dissent and battle the media had decided it was time to celebrate and define this as the project that would make Seattle a really big city. (Seattle Times:” Seattle welcomed light rail Saturday with cheers, applause and a question: What took you so long?”
Boarding the train in one of those unique tunnel stations which were opened years ago as bus tunnel stations and are extra large so that waiting buses can pass each other. Designed with marble and granite and all the opulence otherwise only known from Moscow’s subway. The stations dwarf the trains now added to the buses. The design richness and attention to detail continued throughout all stations, subsurface, above ground or at grade. Kids and adults that acted like kids when they unpack their trainset dominated the trains and all the train aficionados turned out in force.
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