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Seattle's first streetcar, Sept. 20, 1884.
Photo courtesy Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI).
From the first successful steam ferry launches of the "Mosquito Fleet", Seattle's first street car in 1884, the creation of Seattle Transit and eventually King County Metro Transit, our mass transit history milestones are listed here. Just click on a decade on the left navigation bar to read about them. You can read more at historylink.org (Type Roads & Rails into the database quick search.)
- Would you like to take a trip back in time? The Metro Employees Historic Vehical Association (MEHVA) is dedicated to the preservation of Seattle and King County's transit heritage through the restoration and operation of vintage transit vehicles as a working, living museum. They offer Trackless Trolley Excursions and Motor Bus Excursions during the year. There is also more information and historical photos of electric trolley buses in Seattle. Visit MEHVA's web site for more information.
- Read Better than Promised: An informal history of Metropolitan Seattle, by Bob Lane, 1995.
- Read about Metro's current bus fleet in Metro Bus Facts and Figures.
- Learn how you can give a commendation for your bus driver and perhaps he or she will be given the honor of Transit Operator of the Year.
- Visit King County's Sesquicentennial web pages as the 150th Anniversary of the creation of King County on December 22, 2002 is celebrated.
SOURCES:
» Routes: An Interpretive History of Public Transportation in Greater Seattle, Walt Crowley, Metro Transit, 1993;
» historylink.org, through November 2002;
» King County Department of Transportation website and news release archives through November 2002, King Street Center, Seattle;
» METRO annual reports to bondholders, 1980 through 1991;
» Bus Roots: the Ten Years of Metro Transit 1973-1983, Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, 1984;
» “Suburban Service From Seattle,” Motor Coach Age, June 1968;
» Obituary for Elwood Arneson, Seattle Times, March 3, 2002;
» “Mobility and Preservation of Wallingford’s Vernacular Landscape,” Sharon V. Scherer, University of Washington;
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