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Community Streetcar Coalition News Clips March 8 – March 15, 2018 COMMUNITY STREETCAR COALITION NEWS CLIPS COMPILED BY BROADCAST CLIPS El Paso KDBC March 15, 2018 LINK: http://bit.ly/2DuU9ux The first streetcar is finally headed to El Paso. Representative Peter Svarzbein was in Brooksville, Pennsylvania; that’s where the refurbished streetcar was prepped and loaded for the journey back to the borderland. After all the chains were attached, streetcar #1506 was out of the factory. Svarzbein did not say when it’s expected to arrive. Oklahoma City KWTV March 13, 2018 LINK: http://bit.ly/2FO4zaA In today’s Oklahoma City business report, another step forward for the streetcar project in downtown Oklahoma City. Yesterday another one of the seven total streetcars was delivered to the Metro. After the delivery of the Clear Sky Blue car, the Redbud car went for a short test run. EMBARK says so far things are going smoothly. Things are working as expected, and so we’re just continuing to learn ourselves, because this is the first time we’ve had rail vehicle on city streets in more than half a century. Each of these cars will go through extensive test runs before any passengers get on board. Milwaukee WTMJ March 13, 2018 LINK: http://bit.ly/2FTUJqH A potential roadblock for the next phase of the Milwaukee streetcar project. Our partners at the Milwaukee Business Journal reporting that the city failed to win a $20 million federal grant for the second time. It would have helped pay for an extension to the new Bucks arena. Omaha WOWT March 10, 2018 LINK: http://bit.ly/2DuDTcP Well we’ve heard the plans for a proposed streetcar here in Omaha, but how exactly would it be paid for? The mayor weighing in tonight. A report gathered through a recent study has been handed over to Mayor Jean Stothert. It outlines benefits of the streetcar and even gives a proposed route. If passed, the project could cost the city more than $169 million. The mayor says she has not reviewed the report just yet but she is releasing this statement: “I am not going to commit any city dollars for the streetcar. If there is any city money involved at all, at any point, it would be a community decision and the citizens will vote. If we are going to continue to build up downtown and midtown, we need to improve transit and public transportation, but it needs to be a menu of options.” 2 PRINT COVERAGE Streetcar 1506 is en route to El Paso KVIA By Jerry Najera March 14, 2018 After a little more than a year of restoration, El Paso streetcar 1506 is on its way to the borderland. It's one of six streetcars that's being restored in Brookville, Pennsylvania, and it is expected to be in El Paso in five days. With great care, streetcar 1506 got prepped for a ride to El Paso. But the weather doesn't appear to be offering favorable conditions. "I think it's about 22 degrees right now. It's been snowing on or off for the entire day," said District 1 Rep. Peter Svarzabein. Svarzbein went to Brookville to oversee the transport of the street car. He tells ABC-7 the conditions haven't hampered the move. "These guys here they are used to it. All they had to do was wear a couple of extra layers and make sure they had good gloves on some good socks but everyone was excited about street car leaving town today." Svarzbein said. Svarzbein said getting the street car prepped wasn't an easy task. It took about a dozen workers to get the car ready. "First they have to load it up onto the flatbed truck. There's specific points they use to tie down the streetcar. Then you have a crew to batten down everything," Svarzbein said. Svarzbein tells ABC-7 this project is more than a just streetcar running up and down the streets of the city. "We are in an interesting time when it comes to talking about our border and to think that our city is bringing back to life those same streetcars that ran 500 times a day between El Paso and Juarez, what amazing symbol of pride to show love to ourselves, for our region for our identity,” Svarzbein said. LINK: http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/streetcar-1506-is-en-route-to-el-paso/716546726 3 First of six street cars en route to El Paso KVIA No author listed March 14, 2018 The first street car expected to roam the streets of El Paso is making its way to the Borderland. The El Paso Transnational Project released video of street car No. 1506 leaving a factory in St. Brookville, Pennsylvania, where the trollies were being restored, and make the cross-country journey to El Paso. Construction of the 4.8-mile street car route in Downtown and west side El Paso is nearly complete. Street cars are expected to start operating in the spring. LINK: http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/first-of-six-street-cars-en-route-to-el-paso/716310299 4 FAQ City: The Blue Line Extension: You’re Got Questions, He’s Got Answers WFAE By Nick De La Canal March 13, 2018 It was only around 70 years ago that Charlotte had a booming trolley system, with dozens of orange-colored streetcars running up and down the middle of Queens Road, The Plaza, and other surrounding streets and neighborhoods. That is, until the late 1930s came around, and the city dismantled the system, envisioning a future where cars and buses would become the city's primary modes of transportation. Now, the city is decidedly moving back in the opposite direction, imagining a future where Charlotteans do use rail lines, in addition to cars and buses, after all. The rail revival has been picking up steam over the last few decades, beginning with the reintroduction of the trolley in 1996, followed by the historic opening of the LYNX Blue Line in 2007 and the opening of the Gold Line streetcar in 2015, and now, in present day, with the launching of the Blue Line extension connecting uptown to UNC Charlotte. The new 9.3 mile light rail line officially opens to the public on Friday, March 16, (seven months behind its originally-planned launch date: August 2017) and at a cost of nearly $1.2 billion, making it the most expensive public works project in Charlotte's history. Over the last few weeks, WFAE has been calling for listeners to send in their questions about the new Blue Line extension. According to our submissions, people are curious about the project's design, its practicality, and what kinds of future rail projects the city might have in store. On today's episode of FAQ City, we relay those listener-submitted questions to CATS CEO John Lewis, who was kind enough to join us at a newly built train stop on 9th Street just outside uptown, and provide us with answers! Do you have more questions about the new light rail line (or anything else about Charlotte's history, culture, and transportation)? Let us know in the box below! We'll have much more coverage of the new Blue Line extension's debut throughout this week on WFAE. While you're at it, make sure to subscribe and rate/review the FAQ City podcast on Apple Podcasts, NPR One, and Google Play. LINK: http://wfae.org/post/faq-city-blue-line-extension-youve-got-questions-hes-got-answers - stream/0 5 Hansen: What is it about the word streetcar that makes people so dubious? Omaha World-Herald By Matthew Hansen March 13, 2018 The word “streetcar” has barely escaped my mouth, and Mike Hoch is already turning crimson. “The biggest waste of money!” he barks, his voice slicing through the din of a lively Wednesday dinnertime crowd at Dinker’s Bar and Grill. “Just ridiculous!” the retiree yelps a few seconds later as his three dining companions, his wife, Vici, and friends Dana and Mike Shaw, nod in agreement. And then, after the quartet offers reasons why it thinks an Omaha streetcar is a crummy idea — the condition of city roads, the fact it will benefit only midtown and downtown — Hoch drops his argumentative trump card, the one played again and again when I talked to Dinker’s customers Wednesday. Hoch says the construction of an Omaha streetcar will raise his taxes. He says he knows this even after I tell him that preliminary streetcar plans avoid widespread tax increases — and that Mayor Jean Stothert has said she won’t support a plan that hikes property taxes. Hoch’s words come out in deliberate chunks now, as if he’s taking verbal chomps from a Dinker’s cheeseburger. “I just … do not … believe them.” This is the oldest Omaha story in the book. For two decades, we have talked streetcar. For two decades, the idea has animated politicians, business leaders, developers and young Omahans who see it as a way to commit to the city’s future. And for two decades, the idea has infuriated large swaths of residents who question the plan’s price tag and its value. So, yes, I found a fair bit of fury when I spent the lunch and dinner hours interviewing 25 people at Dinker’s. I talked to them two days before a new streetcar report pegged the potential cost at $170 million, set a preliminary route between 42nd and Farnam and 10th and Cass (with 15 stops along the route) and was portrayed by city officials as showing that the project is feasible.
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