The Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Route Settled
The 'Muckler' line announces it will utilize the Eleventh Street bridge, mandating a new crossing over the tideflats.
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The Seattle-Tacoma short line, known as the 'Muckler' interurban, will use the Eleventh street bridge in entering this city, according to notification given the city Saturday afternoon. Saturday was the last day the company, under its franchise, could have for notification of the city whether it would take the Eleventh street or Puyallup avenue entrance to the city. The Eleventh street decision means that a new bridge will be built over the waterway to the tideflats. When this is done, the bridge level will be elevated several feet. The company has nine months yet in which to begin work in the city on the new line.
“The Eleventh street decision means that a new bridge will be built over the waterway to the tideflats.”
The 'Muckler' line (officially the Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway) was a major infrastructure project that defined early 20th-century regional transit. Today, the ongoing struggle to modernize infrastructure and bridge the gap between Tacoma's industrial tideflats and the urban core remains a central tension in the city's growth.
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