Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Streetcars for H Street

Portland Streetcar near Portland State University
Skoda produced Inekon designed streetcar in Portland, Oregon. Photo by Miles Hochstein, Portland Ground.

The Frozen Tropics blog reports, in "Streetcars Make Mayor's 2008 Budget," that the Mayor's 2008 Capital Budget includes money to purchase streetcar vehicles for H Street and more vehicles for the Anacostia line. It's not clear to me if the vehicles will be two-car trainsets--Portland has one-car train sets. I think that two-car sets are desireable, because many more people ride transit in DC than they do in Portland.
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Trio streetcar on the left, being constructed for Washington, DC at the Ostrava Transit Shop in the Czech Republic. Flickr photo by PortlandTransport.

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