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  1. a vehicle driven by electricity, that runs on rails along the streets of a town and carries passengers

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MRW the guy on wheel of fortune guessed "A Streetcar Na_ed Desire" was "A Streetcar Naked Desire." pic.twitter.
Subway or streetcar operator They operate subway or elevated suburban trains with no separate locomotive, or electric-powered streetcar, to transport passengers.
But now even Mayor Bill de Blasio—this streetcar is his baby—seems to be championing the new streetcar as a kind of tourist attraction.
All the while, DC's X43 bus continued to service the exact same line that the streetcar did, raising questions about whether the streetcar was even needed.
That's because the streetcar project began long, long ago—so long ago, in fact, that all the development the streetcar promised to bring has already been finished.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) reportedly ordered 10 new streetcars last year, to help expand the Seattle Streetcar system by linking the two existing streetcar lines.
The federal stimulus of 2009 provided a springboard for the streetcar renaissance, and since then DOT has awarded more than half a billion toward streetcar projects in 15 cities.
The wifi-equipped streetcar will run on a mix of wire and lithium battery power, following in the footsteps of other smart streetcar cities like Kansas City and Atlanta.
The feasibility study for the Brooklyn-Queens streetcar route, which was paid for by a group that includes real estate interests, recommended what amounted to a hybrid streetcar and light-rail system.
Unfortunately, those losses are everyone's, because, as my Waste Report on "A Streetcar Called Waste" noted two years ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation ponied up $85033 million for the D.C. Streetcar.
Kansas City has a free streetcar system in some neighborhoods that's built up a healthy reserve fund, so $2 million that goes to the streetcar system will now be redirected to free busing.
To reduce travel times, the streetcar must make those connections.
Finally, development policies should support the use of the streetcar.
Arlington, Va., and San Antonio abandoned plans for streetcar lines.
By European theater standards, this "Streetcar" is none too radical.
Keeping the streetcar alive has meant moving and shrinking it.
" It sounded like a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire.
Mr. Gilbert sits on the board of the streetcar project.
Get there by Uber or the free TECO Line Streetcar.
For $1.25 a ride, the St. Charles streetcar line (the oldest continuously operating streetcar system in the world) will provide an inexpensive brush with history as it ferries you across town to Washington Avenue.
Other practices can also effectively reduce travel times for streetcar users.
Authorities evacuated several nearby buildings and suspended the area's streetcar service.
A streetcar runs a very short, dedicated route, usually a loop.
In 2007, Washington DC began construction on a 2.2-mile streetcar.
The St. Charles streetcar will get you there cheaply and efficiently.
It ran in February of this year, when the streetcar opened.
There are 8,850 subway and streetcar operators employed in the US. 
It was a first step in desegregating New York's streetcar lines.
A QLine streetcar stop is about one minute away on foot.
Today, you can still ride the streetcar down the same tracks.
Mr. Andrews's "Cat" isn't as radically rethought as his "Streetcar" was.
Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, a group advocating for a proposed waterfront streetcar between Queens and Brooklyn, will show off a full-size modern streetcar at an event at the Brooklyn Navy Yard this evening.
And of course, there were the inevitable A Streetcar Named Desire references.
In 2001, Portland became the first city to open a modern streetcar.
The streetcar has a long and storied past in New York City.
The restriction has made streetcar service more speedy and reliable, she said.
Best actress: "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
If a gondola can't help solve Brooklyn's transportation issues, maybe a streetcar can?
In September, the city will cut the ribbon on its new streetcar system.
His father drove a horse-drawn streetcar, and his mother was a cleaner.
If only the streetcar had a dedicated lane to bypass cars, she said.
In Toronto, about 250,000 riders use the city's 11 streetcar lines each day.
It's also close to a stop on The Hop, Milwaukee's new streetcar system.
Other urban dwellers lose because light-rail and streetcar lines actually increase congestion.
In Kansas City, this includes roads, buses, bike lanes, sidewalks and a streetcar.
When it did open, we were treated to the incredibly lame but admittedly informative DC Streetcar: How to Ride video, which follows a hapless DC resident named Dan whose OKCupid date wants to ride the streetcar as their first encounter.
The city envisions 30 stops over a 16-mile route and 60 streetcar vehicles.
Now it is 2016, and at long last the streetcar will begin carrying passengers.
Which is not to say de Blasio's streetcar will hit the same speed bumps.
When a streetcar was built, the neighborhood of Irvington quickly became a popular suburb.
One example is the proposal for a streetcar line along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront.
The author Tennessee Williams penned "A Streetcar Named Desire" there — on the hotel's stationery.
The catch is that the streetcar may not be necessary to achieve these goals.
Sequential versions of what would become "Streetcar" are on display across a long wall.
They're pretty sandwiches, belying their blue-collar origins in New Orleans's 1929 streetcar strike.
The streetcar runs down Woodward Avenue, one of the city's most important commercial arteries.
Another seminar examined "A Streetcar Named Desire" from a structural and relational psychoanalytic perspective.
St. Charles Avenue, with its streetcar line dating from 2403, is several blocks north.
Fortunately, there's a more relaxing option a streetcar ride away in the Garden District.
Dan enlists his friend Kim to help him learn the simple rules of riding the streetcar, but the whole thing plays out like a bad 80s movie as Dan fumbles his way through a series of streetcar workouts in a Rocky-esque montage.
The Brooklyn Queens Connector, as the streetcar would be called, nimbly advances two political goals.
It won't be easy to construct a streetcar worth the money needed to build it.
The pieces with clearer acoustic phenomena were better, like "Silver Streetcar for Orchestra," which — surprise!
In a recent radio interview, Mr. de Blasio insisted that the streetcar was still on.
If Mr. de Blasio is committed to building the streetcar, it is far behind schedule.
"I just don't see what the streetcar provides that the bus doesn't," Mr. Kennedy said.
In Washington, some showed a bit of streetcar fatigue after the years of unmet promises.
He is expected to propose a $2.5 billion streetcar project for the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront.
There's one big problem with DC's streetcar that may have doomed it from the start.
On January 17, 1887, Bourne boarded a horse-drawn streetcar bound for his sister's house.
The Star article mentioned you'd been recognized on the streetcar, but you denied it. Why?
Mostly, this unusually dynamic "Streetcar" plays more on our nervous system than with our hearts.
It offers easy access (by foot, pedicab or streetcar) to all activities and restaurants noted.
The Hannover 98 player, on loan from Monaco, crashed his car into a German streetcar.
A first-edition copy of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" is going for $208413,208403.
His leg was cut off by a streetcar while he was playing in the street.
Hotels along the streetcar route include the recently opened Aloft Detroit at the David Whitney.
My American literature professor thought Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" was an antihero.
There she is, just off the streetcar, swaying to the radio in dingy rented rooms.
The last streetcar in New York City ran across the Queensboro Bridge on April 7, 1957.
Without a similar change, New York's streetcar will be hobbled by neighborhoods not designed for transit.
Mayor Bill de Blasio will propose today a 16-mile streetcar route linking Brooklyn and Queens.
That production did for my generation what Brando and Streetcar had done for a generation earlier.
If a person was crushed by a streetcar, there may not be much left to preserve.
We were looking for A Streetcar Named Desire, which is the actual famous Tennessee Williams play.
That production did for my generation what Brando and 'Streetcar' had done for a generation earlier.
At the time, Kansas City was digging a trench under Main Street for a streetcar line.
The block is a busy commercial space, with hotels, stores, and the streetcar all right there.
This sometimes reaches absurd proportions, as with the burst of Obama-era mixed-traffic streetcar projects.
Or Elizabeth Marvel's flayed, viscera-exposing performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Little Foxes"?
A streetcar connected the red-brick downtowns of Berlin and Gorham, busy with shops, theaters, and restaurants.
New York City says its 16-mile streetcar would travel faster, at an average of 11 m.p.h.
"One of the biggest problems with the D.C. streetcar is the lack of continuity," Mr. Klein said.
And walking is what they'll be forced to do on Sundays, when the streetcar does not run.
Finally, after almost a decade of delays, mismanagement, and shattered dreams, DC's streetcar will open tomorrow (hopefully).
Construction costs for new and upgraded streetcar and light rail lines are skyrocketing well above estimated costs.
Kevin was spotted "A STREETCAR NA_ED DESIRE" on the big board when the wheel spun to $600.
For those of you playing at home, Kevin thought the play was called A Streetcar Naked Desire.
Smoyer searched for it, scanning a hellish urban landscape of rubble, sagging streetcar cables and collapsed buildings.
Since the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals have been rippling across municipalities in the United States.
We've also seen some cities invest in streetcar lines that really don't do a lot of good.
Since 2001, 11 cities have opened streetcar systems and just as many are planning to build them.
While private development has boomed, it remains unclear when, if ever, the streetcar loop will be built.
On the surface, "Illusion Travels by Streetcar" is an unpretentious comedy about the pleasure of playing hooky.
Indeed, almost all the 435 members lived a short walk or a streetcar ride from the Capitol.
Streetcar lines were ripped out and bus routes were cut as people grew more reliant on cars.
It's been largely debunked, but many originally thought that the General Motors Streetcar Scandal — a theory that claimed National City Lines, an organization GM was part of, bought up all the streetcar lines and converted them into bus lanes — led to the downfall of streetcars and rise of buses.
The Ubers of the day, New York's streetcar corporations, were powerful and profitable, but their workers suffered immensely.
Sagas subway blog, said he thought Mr. de Blasio would kill the streetcar plan after being re-elected.
The sad thing about the current streetcar folly is that this technology was once vital to American cities.
The streetcar has been touted as a crucial piece of this renaissance by bringing visitors to the area.
A ride down Auburn on the streetcar bears testament to Smith's concerns, as well as signs of progress.
The Capital Investment Program funds light, heavy, and commuter rail, along with streetcar, and bus "rapid transit" projects.
His father, Raymond, was a streetcar driver who spent much of his career organizing credit unions for workers.
Stage 21990, a legendary stage responsible for "A Streetcar Named Desire" (21982) and "A Star Is Born" (19893).
And not, technically, a trolley; they take great care here to remind you (cheerfully) that it's a streetcar.
The public utility companies were forced to sell off their streetcar stakes by Congress under an antitrust provision.
America's streetcar renaissance is actually fueled by a desire to support new centers of economic activity within cities.
Her family hired a young lawyer, Chester Alan Arthur, to file suit against the streetcar company for discrimination.
Everyone had an opinion about the streetcar; everyone was suddenly an expert on the intricacies of urban transportation.
KC Streetcar is important as a transportation option for my residents, but it's also important to our economy.
Black residents could attend the same schools as whites, marry anybody they chose and sit in any streetcar.
Dramatic video shot from inside a streetcar as the collapse occurred showed vehicles speeding away from the scene.
One board, the Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, is seeking support for a city-run streetcar line.
Today is going to be loooong, so I mobile-order my Starbucks drink and get on the streetcar.
A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio for a streetcar in Brooklyn and Queens appears to be stalled.
IN THE NEWS • Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to propose plans for a streetcar linking Brooklyn and Queens.
Despite past obstacles, the city wants to expand the streetcar line to a total distance of about eight miles.
The streetcar was originally supposed to launch in 2009, in an impoverished part of the capital's south-east quadrant.
Streetcar-related construction was a bigger disruption to his business before it started running in late 2014, he said.
We were booed and bottled off the stage in Nottingham, and we performed on a moving streetcar in Toronto.
The current streetcar proposal, on the other hand, has the support of major developers whose properties line the waterfront.
Update: Clarified the death of the LA streetcar system — both as portrayed in Roger Rabbit and in real life.
At the end of the day, we wasn't able to get on a streetcar bus because of the stench.
Once you get off the train, you can walk to the adjacent QLine streetcar station, which opened last May.
The dining room feels both French and Northwest, a classy bistro far removed from the nearby streetcar and freeway.
One is congestion pricing, the other a streetcar line that would connect Brooklyn and Queens along their shared waterfront.
She attended Washington High School, worshipped at Glide Church, and became San Francisco's first African American female streetcar conductor.
My father had grown up in Queens and traveled on a streetcar to watch the Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
Streetcar speeds have not overwhelmingly improved since trolleys dominated American city streets in the first half of the 20th century.
After World War I, this became difficult, which led to the demise of the streetcar and made way for buses.
By 1912 cars in New York outnumbered horses, and in 1917 the last horse-drawn streetcar was retired in Manhattan.
Instead of focusing on the streetcar, the mayor has prioritized other transit initiatives, including a popular expansion of ferry service.
British director Benedict Andrews's production of A Streetcar Named Desire played at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn this past spring.
His successor, Muriel Bowser, failed to learn from his mistakes and promised a streetcar service by the end of 2015.
A spokesperson for the mayor did not respond to a question about the decision to support a streetcar over SBS.
At 14, a year after the Communist Party came to power in 1949, he began working as a streetcar conductor.
This month, city officials are planning to meet with community boards in Brooklyn and Queens to discuss the streetcar routes.
Mr. Defonte said he would welcome the development and the new residents that a streetcar could bring to the area.
A streetcar line "would accelerate gentrification and accelerate the displacement of industry, low-income renters and property owners," he said.
Much of the nation's water infrastructure dates back to the Victorian era, when travel by streetcar overtook travel by horse.
Ask them how they like the streetcar and they will tell you, sincerely and in a fair bit of detail.
Ferguson decision — which established the "separate but equal" doctrine —  and the subsequent Southern streetcar boycott movement between 1900 and 1907.
With the subway system in such disarray, the case for the streetcar, popular in other cities, seemed stronger than ever.
Many cite Marlon Brando's portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in the movie "A Streetcar Named Desire" as inspiration for the term.
Since then, streetcar speeds have increased and service has become more reliable, though some restaurants and stores have lost business.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is far from a rarity, in part because actresses love playing that hot mess Blanche DuBois.
The Motor City once had a vital streetcar system, including a track that ran down its main corridor, Woodward Avenue.
Some areas worth exploring, like the vibrant Corktown neighborhood or Belle Isle Park, are some distance from the streetcar route.
And before this proposal, Kansas City provided free transit cards for students and veterans and operated a free downtown streetcar.
Sometimes she reminds me of Blanche in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' because she lives between reality and fantasy and dream.
Traveling from Dumbo to Greenpoint via streetcar would take 27 minutes; the same trip on the East River Ferry takes 15.
On Wednesday, his embrace of the streetcar idea yielded positive reviews, even as some transit experts complained about wanting more details.
A woman looks at the fencing of an outdoor urinal at a San Francisco MUNI streetcar stop across from Dolores Park.
Stephen Colbert saw an opportunity to tie Storm Stella into a classic movie scene from A Streetcar Named Desire on Monday.
The audio and video of the shooting, and the minutes preceding it, from inside the streetcar proved to be key evidence.
The promise of the streetcar has already helped to revitalize the 2.4-mile corridor east of Union Station, city officials say.
In New York City, Mayor Bill De Blasio proposed an above-ground streetcar that would connect the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts.
The big pitch made by advocates of the BQX streetcar is that it would connect mixed-income neighborhoods with economic hubs.
This app will issue "walk" alerts at various intersections and will audibly signal if a bus or streetcar begins moving nearby.
And streetcars are also making a comeback, with cities like Washington, DC, Cincinnati, Dallas, and others jumping on the streetcar bandwagon.
It's a sloppy-comedy version of Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, with less Streetcar Named Desire baggage, and more vagina-related dialogue.
New transit centers would be built and the underperforming Atlanta Streetcar would extend east and west to connect with the BeltLine.
Many streetcar success stories, including in Portland, begin with regulatory and tax relief that spurred revitalization well in advance of trains.
Correction: An earlier version of this article mixed up the names of Dan's OKCupid date and his helpful streetcar expert friend.
Coe was then hanged from a streetcar wire on the corner of 17th and Harney in front of thousands of onlookers.
The city also built 25 kiosks along the 2.2-mile streetcar line to provide tourist information and installed public Wi-Fi.
After all, most cities had just ripped up their streetcar networks because they were privately owned systems that weren't making money.
I've seen this play out in Kansas City, where businesses are thrilled by the streetcar system that opened a year ago.
It is less than a block from St. Charles Avenue, a main thoroughfare with a charming streetcar line dating from 1835.
The Congress Hall was not the only Washington hotel from which members could walk or take a streetcar to Capitol Hill.
Caballero and his team transformed it by building rails and cables for a streetcar, and adding sidewalks and shops alongside them.
More remarkable are the set designs of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The streetcar started running "simulated service" in fall of 2014, meaning the cars ran completely empty up and down H Street for roughly a year-and-a-half (like DC's Metro, the streetcar had a habit of catching on fire) before safety officials finally allowed it to open to the public in February of this year.
The Paris region's roughly 65-mile streetcar system, mostly completed over the past decade, shows how appealing quick-moving streetcars can be.
Downtown Atlanta also has a streetcar loop that stops at Centennial Olympic Park, a 20193-minute walk from the Mercedes-Benz stadium.
Jesus (Jencarlos Canela) and his buddies entered the story via streetcar, singing Celine Dion, just as in the Gospel of John. 5.
They watched security footage from the streetcar as Forcillo, gun drawn, and other officers ordered Yatim several times to drop his knife.
Before, there was a streetcar that brought Baylor students to and from the business district; after, passage beneath a dark, foreboding underpass.
Among them was the case of Constable James Forcillo, who shot and killed teenager Sammy Yatim on a Toronto streetcar in 2013.
LA once had the largest rail network on the planet until the old streetcar system was dismantled in the 1950s and 1960s.
The program came in the wake of recommendations after the 2013 police shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim on a streetcar.
Not only is Seattle having problems with its streetcar projects, but its bike lane experiment has also been an unmitigated financial disaster.
First, it can move around double-parked cars or other obstructions, while the streetcar must patiently wait for them to correct themselves.
I'd say it was what I would have expected seeing Brando in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'; it was completely fulfilled and embodied.
We decide to take the streetcar to their neighborhood a bit early for a glass of wine while we wait for them.
You can also check out this documentary for a closer look at the debate around New York's Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar proposal.
In 1854, Graham, a teacher in her 20s, boarded a New York streetcar without noticing the sign refusing service to black people.
As for the streetcar plan, called the Brooklyn Queens Connector, it was put forth by Mayor Bill de Blasio two years ago.
Canal Street, with its swaying palm trees and bustling streetcar lines, serves as a grand gateway to the heart of the city.
As I walked toward the hotel for the first time, a streetcar on the St. Charles line passed by on Carondelet Street.
The streetcar line, for example, would be paid for and run by the city, not the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which the state controls.
For those hoping to ride the streetcar in the next decade, the silence from City Hall over the last year has been frustrating.
His beloved opera A Streetcar Named Desire premiered the following year at the San Francisco Opera, which scored the Grand Prix du Disque.
Rocky Radtke (no relation to Summer) bought Baker Streetcar 20 years ago, at a time when Hamtramck got a lot of tourist traffic.
The journey from the narrator's own "gentrifying neighborhood" to Mohamed's apartment involves traveling by streetcar, subway, and bus to the city's outer limits.
The plan under consideration calls for a streetcar with light-rail features, including more space between stations and a dedicated lane when possible.
In New York, this idea just needs more attention paid to its on-street infrastructure to help sell it to the streetcar audience.
The "In My Feelings" video, directed by Karena Evans, is eight minutes long and features Shiggy himself dancing in a New Orleans streetcar.
His first big break came in 1949, when he designed the set for an Italian production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.
The only other streetcar line that is firmly in the city's plans is an extension of the current one through downtown to Georgetown.
The good news in all of this mess is that when it starts transporting passengers on Saturday, the streetcar will offer free rides.
The city's famed Uptown streetcar line wraps around the circle, and nearly all Carnival parades traverse it near the end of their route.
Mr. de Blasio has proposed building a waterfront streetcar in Brooklyn and Queens while extending the city's ferry system and adding express buses.
Rather it is the description of a well-to-do young woman's hysterics after she is addressed as "comrade" by a streetcar conductor.
How will the streetcar connect to subway lines so riders can easily switch, and will the Metropolitan Transportation Authority agree to free transfers?
The streetcar, which will run on a 2.4-mile route in Washington's Northeast quadrant, is being operated by the D.C. Department of Transportation.
Some streetcar supporters worry that the backlash might endanger Atlanta's chances for federal government-backed expansions, and figures like Mr. Robinson are counseling patience.
Similarly, passengers should be provided free transfers from buses and the subway to the streetcar to encourage riders to incorporate it into their trips.
A streetcar route, she said in an interview, offered a novel and practical fix at a time when federal money for infrastructure is scarce.
Forcillo was found guilty of attempted murder because he continued to fire shots after Yatim was already lying on the floor of the streetcar.
In Atlanta, the streetcar system has struggled to attract riders, even though it did not charge a fare for its first year of operation.
But the streetcar would move at slower speeds than light rail, at an average of 11.3 miles per hour, according to the mayor's office.
Plans to build the Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) — a light rail streetcar system — are in the works to connect the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts.
The main downside: You need to admit that the H Street streetcar is useless, and thus the new H Street tunnel is not redundant.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan temporarily halted work on a streetcar project after realizing it would cost the city 50 percent more than previously estimated.
That said, the proposed streetcar will average a speed of 11.3 mph, which is less than half the citywide speed limit of 25 mph.
The KC Streetcar is expected to start operating this spring, although the new service keeps getting held up by cars parking on the tracks.
One Wheel of Fortune contestant put a racy twist on Tennessee Williams' famous play A Streetcar Named Desire — and it cost him $600 dollars!
Where Blue Jasmine was Allen's unmistakable riff on A Streetcar Named Desire, Café Society feels like his attempt to set up The Great Gatsby.
In 1855, he won a judgment for Elizabeth Jennings, an African-American schoolteacher who had been roughly thrown off a segregated New York streetcar.
In February, we learned that just two years after launching, the D.C. Streetcar could be getting ready to retire six cars from its fleet.
This summer, Adam Giambrone, a former chairman of the Toronto agency that runs North America's largest streetcar system, was hired to lead the project.
The city — at the urging of developers — has proposed a streetcar line that would snake along the waterfront from Sunset Park to Astoria, Queens.
I figured that because DC handled the streetcar situation so poorly, maybe there was something more to learn about how this video got made.
TORONTO — As the streetcar crept along Queen Street West in clogged traffic through the heart of downtown, anxiety started to rise among those inside.
"I would only take streetcars that have their own lane," Matthew Hibbert said as he rode a new Spadina streetcar on a recent afternoon.
The underside was as gritty as Mumbai, with no one on the N-Judah streetcar except untouchables, Walker Evans photographs retouched with murky color.
Blanche DuBois, the main character in "A Streetcar Named Desire," mourns the home she lost even as she tries to make a new one.
" Even his working titles were superb: An early incarnation of "Streetcar" was titled "Interior: Panic" and a draft was "The Passion of a Moth.
It makes good on Blanche DuBois's assertion in "A Streetcar Named Desire" that "sometimes there's God, so quickly," especially if that god is Eros.
They brought in period vehicles, including a streetcar, and built working storefronts, transforming a cracked concrete slab overrun with weeds into a vibrant intersection.
For instance, he had Bruce McKenzie play Stanley in "Streetcar," an actor who's not the beefy, hypermasculine guy people commonly associate with that character.
Other funding could come from grants handed out by the federal government, which has tried to incentivize streetcar development in other cities around the country.
Perhaps the streetcar line would not be in perfect economic equilibrium, but it would make it possible for more people to live along the waterfront.
Railroads and their right of ways, and streetcar suburbs, and the suburbs of the automobile air ... You're saying Grass Valley is where we should invest?
But several projects have faced major delays and cost overruns — most notably, a still-unopened streetcar system in Washington — and other plans have been scrapped.
Another issue in New York is whether riders would be able to use MetroCards on the streetcar and transfer to buses or subways for free.
Jr. Smith agreed to hop aboard the new streetcar on Thursday, a day before annual weekend-long celebrations of the civil rights leader kicked off.
As the streetcar hummed past the funeral home where King's body was prepared, Smith launched into his life story, pointing out landmarks from his childhood.
New York City is about join the ranks of US cities making a very expensive bet on a very old form of transportation: the streetcar.
Marlon Brando​ in A Streetcar Named Desire had an incredible body but he was by no means ripped to within an inch of his life.
Marlon Brando​ in A Streetcar Named Desire had an incredible body but he was by no means ripped to within an inch of his life.
" But even Mr. Harrelson, who visited Mr. Foster recently in New York, said he was surprised by the physical transformation he had wrought for "Streetcar.
We've made a commitment to helping people move around more safely and easily with new sidewalks, bike trails, a modern streetcar and better bus service.
Until the 1940s, Washington had the best streetcar system in the nation, owned and operated by the North American Company, a public utility holding company.
He said he was cautiously optimistic about the streetcar proposal and hoped that any construction it spurs would be moderate and scaled to the neighborhood.
And in his biopic "Malcolm X," Malcolm's father, Earl Little, was murdered by white racists (though the police officially ruled the death a streetcar accident).
In a hurry, she hailed a horse-drawn streetcar at the corner of Pearl and what was then called Chatham Street, according to her account.
At one group meeting, she even rolls on the floor quoting Blanche DuBois from "A Streetcar Named Desire" to make sure she commands center stage.
Despite the fact that the D.C. government couldn't have done a worse job in getting the streetcar up and running, the revival of light rail has proved a popular success for residents in the neighborhood, and with any semblance of political leadership it would be an obvious priority to expand streetcar service to other congested corridors underserved by Metrorail and where buses are overcrowded and frequently unboardable.
Caught in the same congestion as the city's drivers, its streetcar suffers from miserable speeds (less than 10 miles an hour on average) and terrible reliability.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to propose a 16-mile streetcar line along the East River, running from Astoria, Queens, down to Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
He walked slowly at 77, and following too far behind a crowd coming off a streetcar, he walked into the path of a fast-moving truck.
One captures the 19th-century equivalent of the "subway upskirt perv," where a male creep looks up the hoop skirt of a woman boarding a streetcar.
There were some transit workers in the 1930s who were on strike, and two brothers who were former streetcar operators owned a store with a deli.
It has its own bike-share program; it has Uber and Lyft; and come September, it will cut the ribbon on a brand-new streetcar system.
City leaders have already reached a preliminary agreement with federal officials for a $50 million grant to fund a new streetcar between downtown and West Sacramento.
After more than a decade, $200 million in spending, and a few accidents, the Streetcar finally opened its 2.2-mile route to the public in 2016.
In Downtown Brooklyn, the streetcar could run along Tillary Street before traveling south on Court Street, which the report notes has "excellent connections" to the subway.
But a report released by Ride New Orleans, a transit advocacy group, in 2017 showed the streetcar didn't provide the economic boom that was hoped for.
The streetcar must offer reliable service and easy connections to the subway, Mr. Giambrone said, so that people will use it as part of their commute.
The Couture also will house a transit hub and the $124 million, 240-mile line for the Milwaukee Streetcar, which is scheduled to open next year.
The previous February, Mr. de Blasio had announced plans to build a streetcar line along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront, in neighborhoods where Two Trees has developments.

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