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Posted 06 January 2016 - 10:59 AM

 

 

The booming Brooklyn-Queens waterfront is primed for a $1.7 billion streetcar route, according to a detailed proposal obtained by the Daily News.

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.2486682

 

Gosh, this concept has been around for decades. ;)  I'm assuming the route will use a disused rail line.  That will certainly save money on right-of-way acquisition costs.  Once Mayor de Blasio gets on board, the project will likely move forward.

 

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Posted 04 February 2016 - 05:25 PM

 

 

A Trolley Enthusiast on de Blasio’s Streetcar Plan: Sign Me Up

 

Now that Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a proposal to build a streetcar line along the East River in Brooklyn and Queens, the Trolley Man of Brooklyn would like to offer his services.

http://www.nytimes.c...me-up.html?_r=0



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Posted 05 February 2016 - 04:41 PM

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Thoughts on and reactions to the Brooklyn-Queens Connector

 
 
After a day of headlines and intense discussion regarding the Mayor’s endorsement of a $2.5 billion waterfront streetcar connecting Brooklyn and Queens, Bill de Blasio’s State of the City speech was almost anticlimactic. His prepared comments contained only a few sentences on the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, and the fact sheet [pdf]his administration released on Thursday was light on details.

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 09:53 AM

 

 

Diamond in the clear! Transit legend’s streetcar dreams finally back on track

His cable car has just come in!

Mayor DeBlasio wants to bring trolley dodging back to Brooklyn for the first time since the 1950s, and no one is more excited about it than legendary Flatbush engineer and transit geek Bob Diamond, who has been trying to get the city to do just that for more than 20 years.

"Cable car?"   :o

 

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Posted 08 February 2016 - 09:56 AM

 

 

Pols to mayor: Fix Southern Brooklyn transit before building flashy streetcar

 

A cadre of Southern Brooklyn politicians are slamming Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s $2.5 billion plan to build a streetcar route along Brooklyn’s hip waterfront neighborhoods, saying the city’s leader needs to stop lavishing money on “pie-in-the-sky” luxuries while commuters in Southern Brooklyn languish.

http://www.brooklynp...6-02-12-bk.html



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Posted 09 February 2016 - 09:35 AM

 

 

A Streetcar Named Undesirable New York is far denser than any other large American city, with an average of 27,000 people per square mile compared with 2,500 to 4,000 for most American cities. Although the city is criss-crossed by an extensive subway system, there are still some neighborhoods that are more than half a mile from a subway station.

More from streetcar—hater Randal O'Toole here:

 

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Posted 09 February 2016 - 12:08 PM

Second Avenue Sagas, 2/9/16:

The politics and the realpolitik behind the Brooklyn-Queens streetcar


In the likely scenario that the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, Bill de Blasio’s developer-backed waterfront streetcar, never sees the light of day, an inch of progress, a foot of rail, or revenue service, what happens to the $2.5 billion the mayor thinks he has lined up to boost this project? It won’t wind up going toward some other transit project.

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Posted 11 February 2016 - 10:34 AM

 

 

How to Build a Streetcar That Works

 

SIXTY years ago, the last trolleyjangled down the streets of Brooklyn, the end of an era for what was once the most common mode of transportation for urban Americans. Now streetcars are making a comeback nationwide. In the past decade, new lines have started running in eight cities; nearly a dozen more will be under construction this year.

http://www.nytimes.c...works.html?_r=0



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Posted 11 February 2016 - 05:16 PM

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Links: Competing views on the Brooklyn-Queens streetcar

 

 

For your consideration, Yonah Freemark offers up a wary view of the Brooklyn-Queens Connector proposal while Sam Schwartz defends his work. Schwartz, who led the team studying the transit options, explains how his group determined a subway was too costly and bus too slow and insufficient for the area’s transit needs

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Posted 16 February 2016 - 09:09 AM

 

 

What Planners of Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Line Can Learn in New Jersey

 

HOBOKEN, N.J. — With Mayor Bill de Blasio proposing a streetcar line from Brooklyn to Queens, city planners do not have to search far for an example of a similar system to help guide them.

http://www.nytimes.c...ersey.html?_r=0






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