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District of Columbia orders third streetcar for new line
The more it changes the more it is the same. In the early 60’s I was in the Army stationed in DC and rode the 14th Street street car to get to Union Station to take the train home to Providence. Then they built the subway and got rid of those old fashioned street cars. Now they are revisiting the issue and coming to their senses.
The more it changes the more it is the same. In the early 60’s I was in the Army stationed in DC and rode the 14th Street street car to get to Union Station to take the train home to Providence. Then they built the subway and got rid of those old fashioned street cars. Now they are revisiting the issue and coming to their senses.
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$4.35 million for a streetcar? Somebody in D.C. is pocketing some coin.
thank God we’re finally building some passenger rail vehicles (light, heavy. commuter, ANYTHING is welcome) in America again. Will we ever see anything with the longevity of the Budd lightweights and RDC’s, or the PCC’s? Let’s hope so.
Wait a minute, John. The streetcars were long gone by the time the first section of Metrorail was opened. Well, anywaty there are a couple of undergrounf facilities that were squandered in the name of “Progress” when streetcars were abandoned and I wonder if those could possibly be used again this time. Those would be the Bureau of Engraving loop and the undergound station at DuPont Circle. Had plans to put streetcars underground been fulfilled, the original streetcar network would have been, if not unassailable, definitely less assailable.
For John of NJ’s info the street cars were eliminated by an act of Congress. The idiots in charge at that time thought the reason that there was traffic jams in DC was because the street cars were slowing down and blocking vehicle traffic. It was estimated at that time to cost about 105 million to underground most of the DC trolly system. Instead Congress decided to get rid of it to stop the traffic back ups. Within two years they then started the planning to build an entire new subway system that has cost billions.
Geez. United Streetcar here in Portland is turning out to be “Untied Streetcar.” They are so far behind in fulfilling their orders, that (as of this week) the new streetcars sets to be put on our as-yet unopened (but ready) East Side Loop line will not be delivered until November! They were to have been completed and tested by now and through early Sept. This delay is pushing the order fulfillment for the Arizona cars into January 2013. I pity D.C. for having gotten involved with United Streetcar.
Frankly, I don’t get it. United Streetcar was the contract assembler for the Czech Inikon cars initially acquired by Portland Streetcar, Inc. They should have gotten the hang of building the newer versions of the same cars, but clearly they have nothing but trouble in so “doing” – or not doing. The excuses they proffer for their delays are ridiculous and embarrassing to Portland especially.
Geez. United Streetcar here in Portland is turning out to be “Untied Streetcar.” They are so far behind in fulfilling their orders, that (as of this week) the new streetcars sets to be put on our as-yet unopened (but ready) East Side Loop line will not be delivered until November! They were to have been completed and tested by now and through early Sept. This delay is pushing the order fulfillment for the Arizona cars into January 2013. I pity D.C. for having gotten involved with United Streetcar.
Frankly, I don’t get it. United Streetcar was the contract assembler for the Czech Inikon cars initially acquired by Portland Streetcar, Inc. They should have gotten the hang of building the newer versions of the same cars, but clearly they have nothing but trouble in so “doing” – or not doing. The excuses they proffer for their delays are ridiculous and embarrassing to Portland especially.