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Does Dallas need a streetcar system?
Interests invested in downtown are pushing for them, and the city is asking … [visit site to read more]
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… I hear that Mayor Tom Leppert and City Council members Linda Koop and Ron Natinsky are in Toronto with Downtown Dallas CEO John Crawford. Among other things, they are looking at that city’s...
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Streetcars were us
During a media tour of DART’s new Green Line last week, officials mentioned a couple of times that it takes the same route along Fair Park that a streetcar line once took. I wanted to include that...
View ArticleDowntown-only streetcar system?
The latest streetcar plan proposed for downtown is a good one, in my view. As laid out this week before a council committee, it would link the area around the convention center hotel to the commercial...
View ArticleCan light rail and streetcars co-exist ...
… without confusing the stuffing out of the Dallas public? And would an $80 million downtown system pay off on the investment? These questions lingered yesterday while I was putting together an...
View ArticleAvoiding piecemeal streetcar systems
Washington, D.C., is pushing forward with an ambitious streetcar system that’s taking shape along the lines of what we have advocated in Dallas: building in phases according to a unified system plan....
View ArticleOak Cliffers want streetcar priority
Not satisfied to be merely a phase-to-be-named-later, Oak Cliffers are pushing their streetcar proposal as superior to downtown’s and more suited to be the first one built. Best defense is a good...
View ArticleLaHood touts, but does not promise, streetcars for Dallas, Fort Worth
Colleague Rudy Bush, our man in the City Hall bureau, has a report on his blog about U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s visit to the Woodall Rodgers deck park site this morning. He notes that...
View ArticleKoop says city will pursue new federal grants for streetcars
Dallas’ likelihood of getting federal help to build a streetcar system may have just improved. On Tuesday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced in New Orleans that the department would...
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