Streetcar insanity, D.C. style
Buying the bogus propaganda from Portland, our nation's capital has acquired three streetcars. They've owned them for three years. Problem is, they don't have any tracks, and so they're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to store them in the Czech Republic.
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Comments (9)
Talk about putting the cart before the horse - or something like that. What a great policy decision!
Posted by dg | November 18, 2009 9:24 AM
Is there a way Sarah Palin can blame Obama for this too?
Posted by mp97303 | November 18, 2009 9:30 AM
Wow, someone needs to show them the real truth about our street car debacle, not just the gussied up BS report provided by the folks that benefited from the contracts and kickbacks involved in the "Development" of the street car and surrounding areas.
Posted by Stefan | November 18, 2009 10:01 AM
But hey, they're cool, cuz they've got their streetcars! And good intentions trump good decisions any day of the week.
Posted by Michelle | November 18, 2009 10:44 AM
DC should install them without delay! As Portland has discovered, streetcars instantly end all all greenhouse emissions, and through mechanisms that no one can quite elucidate or prove, they somehow entice billions in private investment!
It's a win win win! Unless you consider the cost of course. But why would any city council do that?
Posted by Snards | November 18, 2009 10:50 AM
Say what you want about Portland's city government, but at least it's not run by Congress.
Posted by Gil Johnson | November 18, 2009 12:53 PM
DC should lease those cars -- while they can.
Posted by Mojo | November 18, 2009 1:47 PM
You mean those visions of sugar plum condos aren't real?
There are some tenable explanations.
It's a demonstration project -- true zero emission vehicles courtesy of your nation's capital.
Or these streetcars were purchased for the planned line that goes out to St.E's. Now that John Hinckley has a driver's license, the demand for public transportation in the sector has fallen off.
Or the District is moving to save face -- there's a plan afoot to jack up all the empty condos built around Nationals Parks and disperse them along the streetcar routes in anticipation of the greening of the District.
Posted by Grady Foster | November 18, 2009 5:31 PM
It's a conspiracy against the streetcar "company" by General Motors, Firestone, etc., that bought those Streetcars from Washington D.C. and kept them in storage, while dominating the sale of GM made buses to the city's transit system.
Oh, wait, GM hasn't made a transit bus in almost 30 years...
Posted by Erik H. | November 18, 2009 8:12 PM