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Central City Recording
Clintonville
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First line... "Like seemingly every other city in the country, Washington, DC is planning a streetcar network."
Every other city in the country. Except our city, which was designed and built around streetcar lines. Awesome.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Transit is only a quality of life issue, so why worry about it? It's not like anyone really uses it for any practical purpose. It's all about bar-hopping.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I honestly think this approach is better than what we've tried in the past. The overall pricetag is higher, but when you're showing that you're planning a larger network that will service a wider area of people, places, and functions then you're bound to have more buy-in from the public.
One of the biggest complaints I heard about the Streetcar wasn't that people were opposed to the idea... it's that they were opposed to the idea of building one short line in an area that didn't service them on a regular basis.
Start small, but start with step one of a larger solid plan.
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Jergarr27
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it would just be nice to have an actual transit plan (that included alternative forms other than what we already have) here in Columbus! All these studies that this city has done over the years that seemed to not lead to anything just irk the @&^% out of me... and i'm sure i'm not alone. It's nice to have something to look forward to as opposed to only possibilities..
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cbuster
Old North Columbus
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D.C.’s New Streetcar: Commercial Property Owners Will Foot Part of the Bill
"The Washington Post reported that around a quarter of the cost of Washington D.C.’s new streetcar plan  which would run along 37 miles of the city and cost $1.5 billion  will be borne by commercial property owners along the H Street-to-Benning Road Northeast line."
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Washington Comes Closer to Bridging the Gap with its New Streetcar Network
by Yonah Freemark | June 2nd, 2010
Compared to the massive, multi-billion dollar investment made over thirty years in the construction of Washington’s Metrorail network, the 37-mile streetcar system that the city’s Department of Transportation is planning pretty much spare change. These more limited ambitions are a reflection of tighter times, a realization of the fact that save some unforeseen technological advance, the era of big expansions of American rapid transit networks has mostly come to an end.
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LoudPrincess
Hilltop
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Walker wrote >> One of the biggest complaints I heard about the Streetcar wasn't that people were opposed to the idea... it's that they were opposed to the idea of building one short line in an area that didn't service them on a regular basis.
Start small, but start with step one of a larger solid plan.That was precisely the issue I had with the streetcar plan. All of the emphasis at the City Council meeting was on bringing attention to the Arena District, Short North, German Village, Campus, etc., and trying to get people who currently don't use public transit all excited about it. Don't get me wrong. I love my Short North peeps, but you've got to cater to more than just the business owners when trying to get a plan like this going. I think a lot of people would choose public transit over using their cars if we had a faster, more reliable system that served many different areas of Columbus.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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LoudPrincess wrote >>
I think a lot of people would choose public transit over using their cars if we had a faster, more reliable system that served many different areas of Columbus.Well, keep in mind that what you described would still have to be an "end goal" of a larger transit network. We'd still have to take a first step and a second step and a third step and so on to get there. It's virtually impossible to build an all-encompassing system with multiple lines that serve many different areas of Columbus that could all be constructed and open for service simultaneously.
I actually do think it makes a lot of sense to set up the first line to service one of the most densely populated areas (North Campus to German Village). We just need a roadmap of how other areas will connect into that system over the next 5-10-15-20 years.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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The Case for Streetcars
Submitted by Ginger Moored on January 10, 2011
Almost 50 years ago, streetcars in Washington, D.C. stopped running and most of their tracks were removed. Now they’re back and ready for a revival, with parts of the first two lines slated to open next spring. In this post, we talk to Dan Tangherlini, the former DDOT director under Mayor Anthony Williams, who committed to building one of the first two lines, about why streetcars matter for the nation’s capital.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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D.C. officials to plan for more streetcar lines
By: Ben Giles 04/18/11 8:05 PMThe D.C. Department of Transportation will forge ahead this summer with its plans to add more streetcars, as officials try to take advantage of the nearly $100 million allotted to streetcars in the mayor's proposed fiscal 2012 budget.
In a chat with D.C. residents on Mayor Vincent Gray's proposed budget on Monday, DDOT interim Director Terry Bellamy said the city would begin planning this summer for a streetcar on M Street, an extension of the Benning Road streetcar to the Benning Road Metro station, and combined bus and streetcar transit lanes on K Street from Union Station to Washington Circle, near George Washington University Hospital.
READ MORE: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/04/dc-officials-plan-more-streetcar-lines
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Columbus Underground
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Streetcars to return soon to the District
By Ashley Halsey III, Published: January 27
The clang of the trolley’s bell once was ingrained in the urban mosaic, sharper than a car horn, louder than the cry of boys hawking newspapers, distinct above the rumble of life in Washington. And then one day it was gone: Jan. 28, 1962 — 50 years ago today.
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