Posted on 07/17/2015 9:01:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
Charlotte, North Carolina’s $37 million streetcar officially began moving this week, and those in the community were still wondering — was it worth that much money?
Knowing the backlash that the electric streetcar has received in the community, two editors at CharlotteFive, a new project of the Charlotte Observer that says it delivers both news and entertainment to Millennials, decided to see just how efficient the streetcar is and challenged it to a race.
According to a video produced by the online site,Charlotte’s Gold Line streetcar travels at a speed of approximately 16 mph and only makes six stops on its 1.5 mile route, during which it abides by traffic laws such as stoplights. But when pitted against Katie Toussaint, an assistant editor at CharlotteFive, on it’s opening day, the Gold Line streetcar’s achievements didn’t shine quite so bright.
The streetcar completed its route in 11 minutes and 32 seconds, according to CharlotteFive.
Toussaint, 25, completed the same route in 9 minutes and 31 seconds — almost exactly two minutes faster.
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So? Yabut it’s free, and a govt investment. Used by peeps who spend zer0 time supporting the govt.
LOL. That’s a nice one.
Ran half a marathon and drank Sangria the night before.
Sounds like a fun girl!!!
Not to mention the construction had the roads torn up in front of one of the largest hospitals in the region...forevah.
You could buy a lot of these for 37 million.
Another manifestation of these phony “gaslight districts”. They’re being installed all over the place. Same phony brick crosswalks & sidewalks, same phony ornate light posts, etc.
Milwaukee is building a similar one and I believe the price is 124 million and goes 2.1 miles.
Big Deal. Sweaty stinky girl saves 2 minutes she can use to change into/out of her running togs.
Is the news paper organization reported this looking for a new copy-editor?
Regards,
Yeah, and we can do a video about a guy wearing snow shoes beating the trolley.
Who cares, everyone gets mugged in these fake downtown’s anyway.
So how many passengers did Katie carry over that route?
$37 million dollars? for a 1.5 mile route?
Gold Line streetcar, nothing. That’s a Gold-PLATED streetcar!
I’ll bet she’s wearing a Camo G-string.
Mean as hell if you were not careful.
Sweaty stinky girls can be a lot of fun. Better then the prissy ones.
Just think how much CO2 that 40 or 50 Katies would produce running around like that. The streetcar probably runs on “clean” electric power from unicorn farts.
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