City The SLUT Gets Tested
posted by on October 29 at 12:07 PM
(The picture was taken with my camera phone at the corner of Broad and Westlake.)
Over the next eight weeks, Seattle’s new streetcar vehicles will undergo several tests on the South Lake Union line to prepare for opening day which is scheduled to take place in mid-December.The first step in testing is a walking speed clearance test in which streetcar personnel escort the streetcar along the entire route to verify clearances from possible obstructions such as traffic signs or branches.
Upon successful completion of the walk-thru, the vehicles will undergo dynamic testing on Valley Street between Westlake and Fairview Avenues.
Over a period of five to ten days, technicians will verify streetcar vehicles abilities to accelerate, maintain a steady speed and stop.
Once dynamic testing of the vehicles is complete, technicians will focus on the vehicles interface with the traffic control systems along the entire South Lake Union route.
Once each of these verification steps is completed, testing and training of Metro operators will continue until opening day.
Walking speed is about how fast they'll typically run, right? Once you figure in stops for passengers and traffic and stuff.
They should at least make them double-deckers, like Blackpool. They could be a tourist attraction then -- except no tourist has any desire or need to go to or from South Lake Union.
Ha! That's hilarious.
So what color is it really going to be?
I am surprised, but I kind of like the color.
YEAH for pandering to one big business! YEAH Mayor Nickels! Just look at what you have! A SLUT!! A slutty slut SLUT!! Slutting around for taxpayers money! A real nasty slut! And a SLUT that does no real change to make our transit situation in Seattle any better.
Yes, red is the correct color for a SLUT! A corporate whore is what SLUT is!!
Much cooler, but harder to get access to see, is the Link car testing in the bus tunnel every weekend.
I can't reply unless I'm your "friend". The injustice of it!
Valley between Westlake and Fairview? What is that-three, maybe four blocks? What do they do? Hour after hour of identical three block spurts? I wonder what is the allowable percentage of error The Slut gets for improper stopping.
I think it will be covered with ads most of the time.
When will they test how fast it runs over cyclists?
"The SLUT gets broken in" would've also made a great headline.
Does anyone know how much it's gonna cost to ride the SLUT yet?
Hurm, I wonder how many times the SLUT, traveling at a walking pace down Westlake, will get busted by SPD for solicitation?
And someone will be "escorting" SLUT? I thought SLUT WAS the escort!
fucking stop bitching. this is permanent rail transit in the city, not a fucking bus route, and it didn't take 15 years to happen. nickels & allen said "make it so", and so it was done. good for them. i don't care if it gets called the Vulcan route. it's progress.
eventually, the route could be extended up eastlake to UW, etc. etc.
you're going to like it, bitches.
@11: The same as any regular metro fare, $1.25. The U-Pass will cover it.
Jonah: I also considered "The SLUT Gets Around"
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I drove by the little shed thing and saw three cars in three different colors.
SLUT is crazy funny and everything, but I think Sloooose! is more fun to say.
Wait, wait, wait. The SLUT is built and being tested? How the fuck did that happen? I don't remember voting once on this, let alone four times. Are you sure this is being built in Seattle, or that it's not a prank being played on transit happen Stranger staffers?
SLUT A, traveling 15 miles per hour (mph), leaves Westlake at 10:15 AM heading toward South Lake Union, 2.6 miles away. At 10:17 AM, SLUT B, traveling 20 mph, leaves South Lake Union heading toward Westlake. When do the two SLUTs meet? How far from each stop do they meet?
Ride the SLUT!!!
$50+ Million for THAT? What an utter waste of money and time to tart up a part of Seaburg that can be easily transversed by simply walking or even better serviced by an inexpensive electric or motorized bus.
It is a rather gaudy looking decoration too. A bus could have been dressed up to resemble a street car, and it would accomplish the same thing and more for a lot less money.
It would be utterly laughable if it were not for the cost.
--- Jensen
Isn't the SLUT a Public-Private Investment Management Project?
They should paint condoms on the noses of them. Riding a SLUT should be safe.
When will the SLUT "cover the waterfront," so to speak? Who picked out her harlotish jungle red color? Is she ever going to hook up with another transit line? She seems to sashay around in tight little circles? Doesn't she have any pride? Who pimped her really? Paul "Big Boy" Allen or Greg, "The Condofather" Nickels?
I told my husband that the SLUT looked kinda cute. He said, "well you wouldn't expect people to ride an ugly old SLUT would you?"
Doesn't anyone think it's terribly sad that the first light rail service in Seattle had to be pimped by Paul Allen, instead of, say, public demand for modern transit in our "world class city"?
And it goes to South Lake Union of all places! Remember when people said the Monorail going to Ballard was a waste?
Tacoma 1, SLU 1, rest of Seattle/KC: fail.
maxsolomon @ 13
Hey Max, would you or one of the other inbred urban hipster dipshits in the rail uber alles crowd please explain what a 20 million dollar per mile set of tracks and a couple of trolley cars does that the existing bus service didn't? Why is it that after reading posts such a this, which claim that this cute little toy represents "progress" that I have the feeling that 95 percent of light rail supporters are pathetic feebs who are trying to compensate for the fact that mommy and daddy wouldn't buy them that HO scale train set for their ninth birthday.
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