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Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Feb 9 21:07:38 2019, in response to Re: VHB lands contract for environmental review of proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector, posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 9 19:11:33 2019. The streetcars in Portland and Seattle have become something far more than just other than a tourist attraction to visit coffee eateries.Portland Streetcar is probably the only "new" streetcar system in the country that's relatively fleshed out and somewhat usable. Seattle's South Lake Union is still a real estate tool, and the First Hill Streetcar can come across as somewhat poorly designed. FWIW, if DC ever builds out their planned system, they'd actually have a decent transit system that complements Metro. Toronto's are a solid part of the TTC system. That's a traditional streetcar system. FWIW, if it's one system that really should have invested in streetcar tunnels, it's them. A streetcar tunnel for the King and Queen street routes would help so much in making the streetcars service faster and more reliable in the core. The one between Minneapolis and ST Paul runs right down the street, and replaced a bus. NIMBY's at the University tried to kill it and failed. It's weird that you'd consider that to be a streetcar given that by North American standards, it's considered to be light rail. Mind you, one could argue that shows the limitations of our nomenclature for this type of public transport. In France, there isn't much difference between old and new networks, so both are called "tramway". |
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