Streetcars Are Making a Comeback, Thanks Largely to Obama

[Peacetrain]

This is a copy of a thread I left in GD..but I wanted to leave it here also, because GD moves so fast and this was such heartwarming thing to read this morning..
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I was researching something else and came across this.. I thought maybe this is something we need to share more with each other.. this is quite exciting.. the fewer cars, the less oil, the less drilling.. solar expansion etc.. they all start to add up :hi:


http://cleantechnica.com/2010/04/17/streetcars-are-maki... /

Thanks to a small transformation in federal transportation policy since Obama took office, cities around the nation are looking at the real possibility of creating new streetcar lines within the next year or two.

In a series of momentous moves, the Obama Administration has made it easier for cities to start or expand streetcar lines. The crux of the changes come from the understanding that streetcars are not just about saving people time, they are also highly useful in building an attractive urban landscape, stimulating and channeling investment and growth into the urban core and into other specifically targeted areas of the city, and attracting non-transit riders to efficient mass transit.

[jaxx]

1. They had streetcars here about 100 years ago.

I wish they would bring them back, I'd sell my car in a minute.

[Peacetrain]

2. Me too.. I am so sick and tired of driving..

But with the suburbanization of America.. we really became the car culture.. Do you think this might help bring back the neighborhoods in big cities?

Wouldn't that be nice!

[Cha]

3. This is exactly the kind of progress we

need for our green future. I had no idea..thanks, Peacetrain!:bounce:

[treestar]

4. that's leadership on less oil dependence

which in GDP it is claimed Obama is not doing.