Fremont’s Streetcar Loading Platform
In 1927 a streetcar loading platform and cutoff route for cars was created at the intersection of Fremont Avenue North and North 34th Street. This intersection is familiar to us today as the site of the Waiting for the Interurban statue.
As car traffic increased in the 1920s it was found that when the city streetcar or the Interurban rail cars stopped to load passengers at North 34th Street, traffic would back up onto the Fremont Bridge. It seemed that much of the prevailing auto traffic wanted to turn right (east) and a solution was designed to keep the traffic flowing. A cutoff route was added to the bridge exit ramp so that northbound cars could turn right on North 34th Street. That created the little platform which today is the home of the Waiting for the Interurban statue
Today car, pedestrian and bicycle traffic still flow through the intersection and the figures of Waiting for the Interurban, still wait for the Interurban train of old days.