{"id":3471,"date":"2008-08-15T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/08\/15\/streetcar-turnaround\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:48:46","slug":"streetcar-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/15\/streetcar-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Streetcar Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2312\/2424845814_df7ab42bf5.jpg\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/14\/us\/14streetcar.html?em\">The New York Times is reporting<\/a> that American cities are seeing the return of the streetcar. Portland, Cincinnati, Denver (pictured above), Houston, and a number of other cities believe building streetcar lines in down-and-out neighbourhoods will revive urban communities. In Cincinnati, advocates suggest this will bring more people downtown. Fares range from free, to 50 cents, to $1.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At least 40 other cities are exploring streetcar plans to spur economic development,     ease traffic congestion and draw young professionals and empty-nest baby boomers back from the suburbs, according to the Community Streetcar Coalition, which includes city officials, transit authorities and engineers who advocate streetcar construction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More than a dozen have existing lines, including New Orleans, which is restoring a system devastated by Hurricane Katrina. And Denver, Houston, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, N.C., have introduced or are planning to  introduce streetcars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They serve to coalesce a neighborhood,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jim Graebner, chairman of the American Public Transportation Association&#8217;s streetcar and vintage trolley committee. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That&#8217;s very evident in places like San Francisco, which never got rid of its streetcar system.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Cincinnati, the line was dismantled in the 1950s and some see streetcars as an old-fashioned mode of transportation. The price of gas and an increased interest in the environment seems to be turning many minds towards the way things were done fifty or sixty years ago. I can only imagine some old man saying I-told-you-so to his grandkids: clotheslines, local food, and streetcars are all making a comeback and everything old is new again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2008\/08\/14\/us\/20080814STREETCAR_index.html\">See the streetcar slide show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by Matthew Blackett\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is reporting that American cities are seeing the return of the streetcar. Portland, Cincinnati, Denver (pictured above), Houston, and a number of other cities believe building streetcar lines in down-and-out neighbourhoods will revive urban communities. In Cincinnati, advocates suggest this will bring more people downtown. Fares range from free, to 50<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/15\/streetcar-turnaround\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Streetcar Turnaround&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10011,1349,1815,6330,3014,10010,1240,4225,10009,8655,593,667,1125,8146,21,428,578,576,1245,849,391],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-american-public-transportation-association","tag-cent","tag-chairman","tag-charlotte","tag-cincinnati","tag-community-streetcar-coalition","tag-denver","tag-houston","tag-jim-graebner","tag-local-food","tag-location","tag-matthew-blackett","tag-new-orleans","tag-north-carolina","tag-other-cities","tag-portland","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-san-francisco","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-transportation","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Streetcar Turnaround - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/15\/streetcar-turnaround\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Streetcar Turnaround - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York Times is reporting that American cities are seeing the return of the streetcar. 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