DC as a center of streetcar manufacturing excellence?

Tramvaj Škoda 14t for Prague in Pilsen, Czech Republic. Photo by Pavel Růžička 2005 via Wikipedia.

Yesterday's Sprawl and Crawl column in the Examiner by Steve Eldridge, "Could D.C. metro region soon see streetcars?," mentions prominently the point made in the recent blog entry "Use it or lose it or you have to recreate it (U.S. streetcar technology and expertise)," that we have an opportunity to rebuild streetcar technology in the United States, in the DC region, because the plans for re-introducing streetcars in DC and Arlington County are amongst the most extensive of any "new systems" proposed in North America (remembering that San Francisco, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Toronto have maintained such use all along).

Thanks for the mention Steve! (who is also writing a Baltimore edition of his column for the new Baltimore version of the Examiner).

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