Waterfront Streetcar

The Waterfront Streetcar, officially the George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line, was a 1.6-mile (2.6 km)-long streetcar line run by Metro Transit in Seattle, Washington, so named because much of its route was along Alaskan Way on the Elliott Bay waterfront. Service began on May 29, 1982, which was the first streetcar run in Seattle since April 13, 1941.

The streetcar has been suspended since November 18, 2005, when the maintenance barn and Broad Street station were demolished to make room for the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. While some of the track and eight of the nine stations remain in place, it is unclear when or if the line will return. A section of the track was ripped out in the spring of 2012 as part of the construction project drilling a deep bore tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. James Corner Field Operations, a Manhattan-based landscape-architecture firm hired to recommend a new vision for the Seattle waterfront once the Viaduct has been demolished, has recommended the Streetcar not be returned to Alaskan Way, but to nearby First Avenue instead.

The streetcar service was replaced by Metro bus Route 99, using buses which were wrapped to look like streetcars. However when the route was revised to run north on 1st Ave, the wrapping was eliminated in February 2011. Although there had first been rumours that the streetcars had been sold on eBay or shipped to Tennessee, they are currently stored in a Metro Transit warehouse in the SoDo district.