While we weren't in support of the South Lake Union Streetcar, now that it's up and running, we support the plan to expand its services.

In for a penny, in for a pound, right?

We can't afford to let the tiny 1.3-mile streetcar line languish as we've done with the 1-mile Monorail line, a relic isolated from the city's transportation system and stuck in time warp.

Connecting dense areas such as Fremont or Ballard to downtown Seattle and the Central District could be a vital piece to solving the transportation puzzle, moving the maximum number of people in the most efficient (fiscal, environmental and temporal) way.

Even ...