Talk:Transportation in Seattle

Streets
This should probably be expanded to cover the number of miles of city streets, etc. When someone does that, they might wish to mention the following for historic perspective, citable from Fleming, S. E. (1919), Civics (supplement): Seattle King County, Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, p. 35. - Jmabel | Talk 06:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * As of December 31, 1915, Seattle had 241 miles of paved streets, 141 miles of planked streets, 688 miles of sidewalk and 469 miles of sewers and drains.
 * "From 1911 to 1915, the number of horse-drawn vehicles [in the city] showed a decrease of 60 per cent over against an increase of 220 per cent for motor vehicles," requiring streets to be "kept in better shape, because the motor vehicles cannot pass over streets with mud as the horse-drawn vehicles can."

Revised Mass Transit sections and did some photo revisions
I did some serious work on the mass transit section (previously the Public Transit), first changing the name to thus since the section also addresses Zipcar.
 * There were a lot of proofreading errors so I took stuff out, added stuff in, and changed the overall tone of the section to maintain encyclopedic neutrality. I added information about the expanding streetcar network and a little about the downtown tunnel.
 * As far as the pictures are concerned: there are too many at the top of the article, so I will remove [File:Seattle street work 05.jpg] because it least demonstrates the article content. The picture of the Pugetpasses in the Mass Transit section is also outdated, so I will replace that with one of the new ORCA readers.
 * I will also add a small paragraph about the new ORCA system in the mass transit section so the picture corresponds.

If anyone disagrees with what I've done, put it here. Sherwelthlangley (talk) 04:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)