The Waterfront Tracks Fight
A legal stalemate over rail access between Columbia and Marion Streets keeps the city's waterfront in suspense.
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The tracks on the ram's horn right-of-way were completed as far as Columbia street last evening and may be continued across that street today unless pending litigation should prevent it. J. M. Colman has appealed to the supreme court from the decision of Judge Osborn refusing him an injunction to prevent the Oregon Improvement Company from rebuilding the tracks through the block between Columbia and Marion streets. The Oregon Improvement Company denies that a restraining order can be continued in force in that way and will immediately seek a preliminary decision from the supreme court on that point. If its contention is sustained, work will go right ahead, the board of public works having already given a permit for the construction of the tracks to Marion street.
“The tracks on the ram's horn right-of-way were completed as far as Columbia street.”
The waterfront rail lines were a crucial piece of Seattle's industrial infrastructure. Conflicts over who owned the right-of-way and how it disrupted urban access continue to shape the development of Seattle's shorelines today.
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