Imagining Red Car Routes

Please keep us informed about these meeetings. More details, please! Timelines, budgets, routes, opportunites for public input. Keep it coming! (Are there any other sources for information?) I think this project has enormous potential for enhancing the quality of life downtown for residents and making it easier to visit downtown. Hopefully, the Fashion District won’t be left out. I really look forward to the day when I can just hop on a trolley up Broadway/ Spring/Hill to get to the Grand Central Market.

OT: Oh, but it was a sad and messy start for UH :-/ Not that a win was expected, but a tighter spread would have been nice.

alan: This is on topic… I mentioned the game. I have no pity for Hawaii. I thought they played a bit classless when they came here two years ago (their 1st string throwing into the endzone at the end of the game against our 3rd string), so I was really hoping we’d run it up on them. We sort of did, but we could have gone a lot higher. -e;

Victor Franco of the Central City Association spoke at our Aug. 13 Southern California Transit Advocates meeting about this proposal. My sense is that everything is very tentative. They seem to have dropped the recreating the Red Car angle. Franco is big on the Portland streetcars built by Skoda and mostly built with private funds from adjacent businesses and parking lot monies–he sees that as a possible model to copy since MTA et al are unlikely to fund this.