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Nancy Lightfoot making the first phone call from a bus, Seattle, September 11, 1985
In September 1985, cellular telephones were installed on four Washington State ferries and five Metro buses for a trial period of four and three months, respectively. The phones required a credit card to use, and cost a dollar for a two-minute local call, with 50 cents for each additional minute. In this image passenger Nancy Lightfoot places one of the…
ID Number:2000.107.124.31.03
Date:1985
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Metro cashier unfolding dollar bills, Seattle, September 24, 1984
In this image, Metro cashier Forrest Wright unfolds dollar bills that have been stuffed into the fare boxes on buses. He said he could easily do without Metro riders who fold a dollar bill into a triangle. "The tricky part for me is to find which side of the triangle opens so I don't tear the bill," he said. Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.124.31.05
Date:1984
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Metro passengers waiting at temporary bus shelter, Seattle, March 6, 1982
In this image Metro passenger Angela Nieto and her daughter Sophia wait for a bus inside a plywood bus shelter built by volunteers at 39th Avenue South and South Othello Street, near the Holly Park housing development. Fed up with Metro Transit delays in building a bus shelter, neighborhood residents built their own shelter, which City officials then complained didn't…
ID Number:2000.107.124.32.01
Date:1982
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George Turner demonstrating a wheelchair lift aboard a Metro bus, Seattle, April 14, 1985
In this image George Turner, chairman of the Metro Elderly and Handicapped Advisory Committee, demonstrates a wheelchair lift aboard a Metro bus. Metro received a $1,000 award from the National Organization on Disability for its work in making it easier for the elderly and mobility impaired to get around on public transportation. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.124.33.01
Date:1985
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Metro Transit tunnel construction, Seattle, February 4, 1988
In this image, construction crews excavate the area that will become the north portal entrance to the Metro Transit bus tunnel and the Convention Center Station at Ninth Avenue and Pine Street. Work on Metro's $455 million 1.3-mile-long bus tunnel began in 1987 amid concerns from local business owners that construction would affect commerce. Metro kept the sidewalks open for…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.01
Date:1988
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Contractors excavating for Metro Transit tunnel, Seattle, March 17, 1987
In this image construction workers from Frontier Foundations, Inc., a subcontractor for Atkinson/Dillingham Construction Co., drill the first hold for the first piling for the excavation of the Pioneer Square tunnel station at Third Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle. Work on Metro Transit's $455 million, 1.3-mile-long bus tunnel began in 1987 amid concerns from local business owners that…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.02
Date:1987
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Metro Transit tunnel construction at Third Ave. and Pike St., Seattle, February 9, 1988
In this image construction workers line a 20-foot diameter shaft being dug on Third Avenue at Pike Street. The shaft will eventually connect with Metro Transit's bus tunnels about 55 feet below Third Avenue, part of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel. Also known as the Metro Bus Tunnel, the 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel now runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.03
Date:1988
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Two men walking in bus tunnel, Seattle, January 19, 1988
In this image, Seattle P.I. reporter James Wallace is accompanied through the bus tunnel by a Metro Transit inspector after the project was delayed because digging farther without stabilizing the soil could endanger building foundations. Most of the tunnel has a concrete structure; the wooden "whiskey barrel" structure at the right edge of the frame indicates a location where a…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.04
Date:1988
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South entrance to Metro Transit bus tunnel, Seattle, August 5, 1989
In this image a Metro Transit inspector walks through the tunnel at the south entrance during construction. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated to include light rail access in 2009. Caption information derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.05
Date:1989
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Ceremonial reopening of Pine Street during transit tunnel construction, Seattle, November 1, 1987
In this image Seattle City Councilman George Benson (left), the "Mighty Mole," and Metro construction manager Valadimir Khazak cut a ribbon and remove traffic barricades on Pine Street and Eighth Avenue, which had been blocked for construction of the Metro tunnel. The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle.…
ID Number:2000.107.124.34.06
Date:1987