As Sound Transit debates a 2008 ballot measure, Tacoma Streetcar has voted to support a ballot measure that includes an intra-city expansion of Tacoma’s existing downtown LINK streetcar system.We are a local non-profit that advocates for rebuilding an integrated streetcar network in Tacoma. Our goal is to reconnect Tacoma’s historic neighborhoods, spur economic development within the city, and reduce the community’s CO2 emissions. Last week the Tacoma Streetcar board unanimously voted to support a Sound Transit plan that aggressively extends the downtown LINK system outwards to other Tacoma neighborhoods. One option the board supports is a LINK extension stretching from Salishan to the Stadium District, and to 6th Avenue. Preliminary studies for these extensions have already been completed by Sound Transit.”

This is a unique opportunity to implement much overdue investment in Tacoma’s neighborhoods,” stated Board President Morgan Alexander. He further asserted “a Tacoma LINK extension connecting our neighborhoods will give voters the best bang for the buck in our great city.”

In a letter to Sound Transit officials sent last week, Tacoma Streetcar urged that an aggressively implemented downtown LINK extension be the focus of any future Pierce County ballot proposal.