Mass Transit
(Fox News) - The city of Seattle plans to bring its new streetcar system online in December. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports the city has spent more than $50 million on the effort and has obviously put a lot of time and thought into the plan.
Except maybe regarding the name.
They now want to call it the South Lake Union Streetcar. But during its inception and construction, the city dubbed it the South Lake Union Trolley. And if you take the first letters of that title, you get the acronym S-L-U-T.
As you can probably guess, that name has stuck, no matter what city officials try to do about it. At one Seattle coffee house, T-shirts with the slogan "Ride the SLUT" are moving off the shelves faster than merchants can get them restocked.
Except maybe regarding the name.
They now want to call it the South Lake Union Streetcar. But during its inception and construction, the city dubbed it the South Lake Union Trolley. And if you take the first letters of that title, you get the acronym S-L-U-T.
As you can probably guess, that name has stuck, no matter what city officials try to do about it. At one Seattle coffee house, T-shirts with the slogan "Ride the SLUT" are moving off the shelves faster than merchants can get them restocked.
posted by BP News Bureau | 7:52 AM
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