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There's no better relationship than the one between New Orleans and its streetcar line.Some cities have subways, while others have trolleys. But down here in The Big Easy we've got streetcars ...
New Orleans' public transit system should redraw its bus map, ... Passengers ride the Canal St. streetcar in New Orleans Tuesday, May 20, 2013.
New Orleans streetcar system could see major expansion, ... Still, Augustine stressed that the map he sketched for board members on Tuesday could change dramatically based on community input, ...
New Orleans’ new Rampart-St. Claude streetcar line provides distinct opportunities to hop off and drop into some of the city’s best bars during Mardi Gras and all year round.
Dec. 18, 2005 — -- Streetcars are among New Orleans' most famous symbols -- having been immortalized in the play and film, "A Streetcar Named Desire." Like so many other New Orleans staples ...
A New Orleans bus driver tips his hat to the streetcar he replaced in 1948. Only a fraction of the city’s historic streetcar network survived, but in recent years the city opened two new lines ...
NEW ORLEANS — With the Super Bowl less than three months away, New Orleans is rushing to lay streetcar tracks through one of its busiest corridors to connect by trolley the Louisiana ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' newest streetcar line will open Sunday, carrying riders along the edge of the French Quarter and part of an adjacent neighborhood. The 1.3-mile route along ...
The St. Charles cars first rolled in 1835. The fare was 25 cents, Louis C. Hennick and E Harper Charlton wrote in “The Streetcars of New Orleans.” (That fare translates to $7.58 in today’s ...
He said that, according to a local streetcar historian, the Army had surplus olive drab paint available for sale after World War I, so NOPSI used that color, and added: “That shade of green was ...