While waiting westbound on Union Street at Third Avenue, this King County Metro crew came by with two crew members atop a service truck checking the integrity of the electrified lines. In its heyday between 1941 and 1963, electric trolley buses ran multiple routes in Seattle and its surrounding neighborhoods. Overhead Electrified Trolley LinesWhen north Seattle was annexed in the 1950s, the city could not afford to extend trolley service to the newly added communities, so it began dismantling the overhead power lines. Currently, Metro Transit operates fourteen routes over seventy miles of overhead power lines and serves about twenty percent of the total transit riders served.
