Talk:Transportation in Seattle
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[edit] Streets
This should probably be expanded to cover the number of miles of city streets, etc. When someone does that, they might wish to mention the following for historic perspective, citable from Fleming, S. E. (1919), Civics (supplement): Seattle King County, Seattle: Seattle Public Schools, p. 35.
- As of December 31, 1915, Seattle had 241 miles of paved streets, 141 miles of planked streets, 688 miles of sidewalk and 469 miles of sewers and drains.
- "From 1911 to 1915, the number of horse-drawn vehicles [in the city] showed a decrease of 60 per cent over against an increase of 220 per cent for motor vehicles," requiring streets to be "kept in better shape, because the motor vehicles cannot pass over streets with mud as the horse-drawn vehicles can."
