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Issaquah, WA, To Invest In A Streetcar

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Felix Sukhenko
7 September 2005 - 6:00am

Community looking to streetcar to ease downtown gridlock, connect tourist attractions and encourage development.

"Spurred by some of that nostalgia, as well as soaring gas prices and clogged streets, more than 80 communities around the country — from Issaquah to Miami — are looking to streetcars to ease downtown gridlock, connect tourist attractions and encourage development.

Congress gave the movement a supportive push this summer with Small Starts, a new federal grant program designed to help fund smaller, cheaper transit projects like streetcar lines and bus rapid transit."

Full Story: Issaquah climbs aboard growing streetcar line
Source: The Seattle Times, September 6, 2005
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