[lowbridge]

Full title: Charlotte’s New $37 Million Streetcar That Travels 1.5 Miles Embarrassed by 25-Year-Old Woman in Running Shoes

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJAvHdSx8g

[Paladin2]

So? Yabut it’s free, and a govt investment. Used by peeps who spend zer0 time supporting the govt.

[BBell]

You could buy a lot of these for 37 million.

[BBell]

Katie

Ran half a marathon and drank Sangria the night before.

Sounds like a fun girl!!!

[moovova]

Not to mention the construction had the roads torn up in front of one of the largest hospitals in the region...forevah.

[Fiddlstix]

[LukeL]

Milwaukee is building a similar one and I believe the price is 124 million and goes 2.1 miles.

[Oztrich Boy]

Big Deal. Sweaty stinky girl saves 2 minutes she can use to change into/out of her running togs.

[alexander_busek]

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.

Is the news paper organization reported this looking for a new copy-editor?

Regards,

[The Toll]

Who cares, everyone gets mugged in these fake downtown’s anyway.

[AmusedBystander]

So how many passengers did Katie carry over that route?

[DemforBush]

$37 million dollars? for a 1.5 mile route?

Gold Line streetcar, nothing. That’s a Gold-PLATED streetcar!

[Rockpile]

At $5000 a foot I hope the cars are air-conditioned.

Seriously, one might suspect a tad bit of graft in the contracting.

[i_robot73]

“...$25 million of the streetcar’s cost was paid for by a federal grant.”

Must be nice, if you can get it....have the nation’s taxpayers fund the boondoggle in your town instead of paying it directly by the community.

[TChad]

A Desire Named Streecar: How Federal Subsidies Encourage Wasteful Local Transit Systems

http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/desire-named-streetcar-how-federal-subsidies-encourage-wasteful-local-transit-systems

Full PDF:

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa559.pdf

[dr_lew]

Here's what remains of a trolley line I rode on, actually sixty years ago. My mom took me for a ride because they were about to cease operations. This is in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia.

[kvanbrunt2]

Typical public transportation bs. One time long ago i was looking at apartents in philly. I took a cab to the apt on front street and figured i could take a bus back to center city. At the time Chestnut street was strictly a bus corridor. no cars just buses. Well i walked all the way back to work waiting to see if a bus came by none did.

[Izzy Dunne]

Yes, but can that 25-year old woman get three people to ride on her at once?

Never mind; don’t answer that.

[Izzy Dunne]

Charlotte’s New $37 Million Streetcar That Travels 1.5 Miles Embarrassed by 25-Year-Old Woman in Running Shoes I'll wager there's no "embarrassment" at all.

They're "proud" of the fact that this boondoggle reduces the carbon footprint by 8.7 molecules and "serves the public" by taking them where they don't want to go.

It's for the childrun, dontcha know.

[bert]

two minutes?

what’s time to a hog?