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The Downtown Journal, Minneapolis' downtown-centric community newspaper, has a person-on-the-street piece on residents' thoughts on streetcars. Articles like this one have a tendency to turn into train wrecks, but, thankfully, the Journal story manages to stay more on the rails than off.
Let's say you're a modest town with a modest bus system. Would 121,500 riders a year be enough to justify a streetcar line? The executive director of Central Arkansas Transit seems to think so.
Hi, I'm Mark. I tend to go by the screen name "mrbula" for reasons kind of described here. My Blogger blogs exist because I have an unhealthy fascination with urban planning and mass transit. My personal blog-journal-thingy can be found at nonlocality.com.
