This may take some of my readers to a time and place that they are not ready to go, allow me to explain that the current Governor of California once rated as the lowest achiever in California history in his second term of office in the 70's he had a Director of transportation who gave a speech where he stated that "In the future we will force drivers out of their cars and make them take public transportation"! What an idiot! While the left wing liberal socialists plan on how to rule the peons of California they make no plans on how to create this so called transportation system because they are incapable of developing and designing constructive idea's due to the fact they are obsessed with control and greed, no time to plan on excellent transportation systems.
OK so Jim what is a good system? Well actually it is a great system it is streetcars! Yes good old fashioned streetcars! They are the backbone of transportation and more they are the center of economic stability and growth.
Cities that have developed streetcars over the last hundred years are far better off than cities with out street cars, lets look at some of them and see, of course subways such as New York and Chicago also are included in the street car stability.
Major areas are also Philadelphia, Pittsburgh San Francisco, and for the coupe d ta we need to look at Sacramento which started planning a rail system in the late 70's and started building it rail line around 1982 which took Sacramento from a cow town to a growth center with industry and commerce moving there as rapidly as the street car system was introduced.
This is what can happen to cities that introduce streetcars, growth and economic stability, so do I think street cars are a good idea? You bet your gas can I do!
It was announced that as many as 22 cities are planning streetcar systems and they are as follows,Washington D.C., Tucson Arizona, Kenosha Wisconsin, Arlington Virginia, Salt Lake City Utah, San Antonio Texas, Fort Worth Texas, Dallas Texas, Providence Rhode Island, Lake Oswego Oregon, Columbus Ohio, Cincinnati Ohio, Charlotte North Carolina, Grand Rapids Michigan, Baltimore Maryland, New Orleans Louisiana, Boise Idaho, Fort Lauderdale Florida, Los Angeles California, Little Rock Arkansas, Seattle Washington.
Of course at the writing of this article there are some of these cities that have started their new lines on short spurs to get things rolling as it were so people would get on board supporting these ideas and to the Obama administration I have to congratulate you for supporting this idea and pushing streetcars throughout the nation as one area that others should support, go Streetcars!
