Seattle’s Center City area needed better north-south transit options to meet projected residential and employment growth and growing demand for Center City circulation trips, including mobility needs of nine million annual visitors.
Nelson\Nygaard analyzed in detail the benefits, costs, and impacts of alternatives for connecting the South Lake Union and the First Hill Streetcars to provide an urban circulator between the Lower Queen Anne, Uptown, and South Lake Union neighborhoods to the north, and the International District and South Downtown area including the King Street Station Intermodal Hub on the south end of downtown.
We analyzed several alternatives to connect the two streetcars, leading to a preferred alternative and provided a viable implementation and finance plan.