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Fed funds go to new streetcar line in New Orleans
By CAIN BURDEAU
February 17, 2010
The effort to expand streetcar lines in New Orleans got a boost Wednesday after the Obama administration gave the city $45 million to build a 1.5-mile line across a business district near the Louisiana Superdome.
The new line will run from the Union Passenger Terminal, the downtown railway and bus station, to Canal Street, the city's main thoroughfare next to the French Quarter. The line will go down Loyola Avenue, past the Superdome, historic jazz buildings and the Poydras Street business corridor.
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