D.C. To Revive Trolley System

Transit officials in Washington D.C. have announced plans to build a new trolley car system beginning in 2007. Many in the city hope the new project will ease congestion in what is ranked the third most congested city in America.

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January 2, 2007, 8:00 AM PST

By Nate Berg

"The city is planning a $25 million project to bring back the trolley cars that last rumbled along its streets during the Kennedy administration. The revival will begin next year with a 2-mile line in southeastern Washington that, fittingly, will pass near the Washington Nationals' new downtown ballpark, which is to open in April 2008."

"'To have baseball and streetcars come back somehow makes the city seem whole,' a city transportation agency worker, Eric Madison, said. Mr. Madison, 32, volunteers at the National Capital Trolley Museum, which saved parts of the trolley fleet after the lines were torn up in 1962 in favor of subways and buses."

Read the full story: Washington Plans $25M Project To Bring Back Its Trolley Cars

Thursday, December 28, 2006 in The New York Sun

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