Tag: streetcar

March 10, 2020

If you care about embodied carbon, money or time you don’t dig. But then this is Toronto. In the former Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, Eglinton Avenue West is a fast-moving arterial road that would be perfect for surface transit. But […]

March 2, 2017

A financial assessment done for the city estimates it would cost $156 million to build and equip a streetcar line linking downtown Omaha to midtown. It would cost about $7.5 million a year to operate the line, reported the Omaha […]

December 1, 2016

The Charlotte Observer reports that the City Council approved a $94.1 million construction contract for the second phase of the Charlotte Area Transit System’s streetcar, which will allow work to begin in 2017. The city expects the project to be […]

November 10, 2016

A fast-tracked streetcar project has left Miami Beach in a tough negotiating position as it prepares to spend a year hashing out an estimated $244 million contract to build a rail system that would ultimately connect across Biscayne Bay to […]