An update on Rampart progress reported by talking head (some streetcars) video is here:
http://www.wdsu.com/...mplete/40442176
Edited by Sloan, 10 July 2016 - 10:39 AM.
Posted 10 July 2016 - 10:39 AM
An update on Rampart progress reported by talking head (some streetcars) video is here:
http://www.wdsu.com/...mplete/40442176
Edited by Sloan, 10 July 2016 - 10:39 AM.
Posted 13 July 2016 - 07:19 PM
Progressive Railroading, 7/13:
New Orleans RTA nears completion of North Rampart streetcar extensionNew Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) crews on Monday began the curb-to-curb asphalt overlay for the new North Rampart Street/St. Claude Avenue streetcar line. The work marks the end of construction on the 1.6-mile extension.
The overlay will occur one lane at a time, beginning with the inside travel lanes. The project communications team will work with businesses, residents and property owners along the corridor to inform them of parking lane closures and other impacts, RTA officials said in a press release.
Continue here.
NORTA press release.
Posted 28 September 2016 - 09:53 AM
Service on new North Rampart Streetcar begins Sunday
Text and video here:
http://www.wdsu.com/...-sunday/3899786
Posted 28 September 2016 - 11:42 AM
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 03 October 2016 - 10:32 AM
StoryNew Orleans RTA opens North Rampart streetcar extension
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) yesterday opened the North Rampart Street/St. Claude Avenue streetcar line.
Agency officials joined New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu for a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 08 October 2016 - 06:46 PM
City holds N. Rampart streetcar line grand opening
The N. Rampart streetcar line began servicing neighborhoods in the Treme, Marigny, and French Quarter last Sunday. Today, the City of New Orleans, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, and Transdev North America held a grand opening for the new streetcar line at Louis Armstrong Park.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu was elated to see the streetcar project completed.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 30 October 2016 - 04:28 PM
A few items of note from the new map resulting from the Rampart-St. Claude Line opening:
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
Posted 02 March 2018 - 07:43 AM
Rampart-St. Claude streetcar extension study could move into slow lane
New Orleans transit officials have signaled they may pump the brakes on a study assessing whether to extend the Rampart-St. Claude streetcar line more than a mile in two directions, citing concerns the study is being paid for with money the city's Regional Transit Authoritycould use for other non-streetcar projects.
http://www.nola.com/...rampart_rt.html
Posted 24 April 2018 - 03:55 PM
RTA: Streetcar expansion to Press Street "not a priority" at this time
During a somewhat contentious exchange at New Orleans Regional Transit Authority's (RTA's) monthly Board of Commissioners meeting, officials pushed back on the notion that a St. Claude Avenue streetcar expansion to Press Street — a project currently under environmental study — is among the organization's top priorities.
https://www.bestofne...ty-at-this-time
Posted 25 April 2018 - 01:16 AM
Interesting article. What is now known as the Rampart/St. Claude Streetcar opened in 2 segments, Loyola first, and then the newest portion on the namesake streets. The piecemeal nature was supposed to continue, so that the line eventually would have ended up at French Market, the same place where the Riverfront Streetcar now ends (although I don't know if both would still end there, or the new line would have become a through route with Riverfront).
I have yet to see this line in operation, but that likely will change this summer. I'd like to see if its ridership matches that found on the Canal Streetcar lines, or the iconic touristy St. Charles Streetcar. But extending it to the Riverfront and French Market can only do it better.
Kevin Korell
OTOL Board Leader
Lakewood, NJ
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