Twin Cities Lines bravely fights the competition late in the game.
Twin City Lines streetcar ad, 1938. pic.twitter.com/rfIjTPanps
— Andy Gifford (@andygifford) October 26, 2014
Saw this on The Transportationist.
Tag Archives: streetcar
Pay Attention OKC! “Rethinking How To Assess Public Transit Needs”
Podcast: Rethinking How To Assess Public Transit Needs | KCUR.
As is often the case, Jarrett Walker talks sense about transit and has some thoughts on streetcar-before-bus systems. OKC, pay attention!
Tracks are not enough: “A Call for Minimum Service Standards”
Article: A Call for Minimum Service Standards « The Transport Politic.
Lately, I’ve been in a mode where I can’t seem to read anything that is “too long”, which means I haven’t been keeping up with http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/. This is unfortunate because Yonah usually has smart things to say. Like the article above. It may also explain the time of day this entry was posted. :-/
The feds don’t subsidize transit operations, but they are happy to cut you a check for transit infrastructure. Not that there’s anything wrong with building more transit infrastructure, but the thing is that once it’s built, really, you should use it.
He picks on recent streetcar systems, and rightfully so, and notes that many have been built for non-trivial sums of money and then the number of cars per hours is abysmal. Two cars per hour, Little Rock? Really?
If you’re going to spend 8 or 9 digits on a system (LR’s was $16M), my dog, run it more than 2-3 times per hour!
Wire allergy: “Oklahoma City opens bidding process for new streetcars”
Article: Oklahoma City opens bidding process for new streetcars | Trains Magazine.
Well, this explains the lack of span wire in the image above (stolen from the OKC website). This doesn’t give me a warm/fuzzy.