Comments on: Streetcar Open House http://leftforledroit.com/2009/10/streetcar-open-house/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:16:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Streetcars Have Landed || Left for LeDroit http://leftforledroit.com/2009/10/streetcar-open-house/#comment-50 The Streetcars Have Landed || Left for LeDroit Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:42:45 +0000 http://leftforledroit.com/?p=23#comment-50 [...] wrote earlier about the rebirth of DC’s streetcar system and even suggested our own alignment for a full-length Rhode Island Avenue [...] [...] wrote earlier about the rebirth of DC’s streetcar system and even suggested our own alignment for a full-length Rhode Island Avenue [...]

]]> By: John Niles http://leftforledroit.com/2009/10/streetcar-open-house/#comment-11 John Niles Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:09 +0000 http://leftforledroit.com/?p=23#comment-11 Stated in the essay: "Additionally, streetcars have higher ridership capacities and are better able to attract development to their routes— no one has ever marketed a property by noting its proximity to a bus stop, after all." What York Transit District -- serving the urban area just north of the City of Toronto, Ontario -- is now achieving with its Viva high quality bus system is a challenge to this statement. Check out http://www.yorkregiontransit.com/ and http://www.vivanext.ca/. Stated in the essay: “Additionally, streetcars have higher ridership capacities and are better able to attract development to their routes— no one has ever marketed a property by noting its proximity to a bus stop, after all.”

What York Transit District — serving the urban area just north of the City of Toronto, Ontario — is now achieving with its Viva high quality bus system is a challenge to this statement.

Check out http://www.yorkregiontransit.com/ and http://www.vivanext.ca/.

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