The Battle for the Puyallup Line
Commuters in Fern Hill join forces with the South End Improvement Club to protest service cuts on the Puyallup streetcar line.
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Fern Hill and other sections along the Puyallup streetcar line are up in arms. Since the service has been bettered on the Puyallup short line, the T. R. P. has pulled off about half the cars on the old line and now the service is worse than it was seven years ago. A petition has been prepared asking that Manager Dimmock restore the old service. The petitioners declare they had a 15-minute service to Fern Hill before, and now they only have half-hour service. The South End Improvement Club last night joined with the Fern Hill people in the kick.
“They do not like it.”
Public transit frequency remains a major political issue for residents in South Tacoma and Fern Hill. This story proves that neighborhood resistance to 'service efficiency' cuts at the expense of local access has been a staple of Tacoma civic life for over a century.
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