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[Sloan]

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[KevinKorell]

From Omaha, NE World Herald, 10/30/06:

Some on Omaha council fret about streetcar costs

The idea of streetcars rumbling along Omaha's downtown streets garnered both enthusiasm and skepticism today from Omaha City Councilmen.

Although some like the concept, they don't all agree that bringing streetcars to Omaha is realistic or affordable.

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[KevinKorell]

Posted elsewhere on the Internet:

From: Omaha Streetcar
To: info@omahastreetcar.com
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 8:24 AM
Subject: Omaha Streetcar Spring Forum 5/23

Greetings,

It is my pleasure to officially announce the Omaha Streetcar Spring Forum!

This event will be Wednesday May 23, with doors opening at 5:30pm. For more information including our guest speakers, please visit http://www.omahastreetcar.com/ . You will see a link on our homepage that you can click on to get the particulars.

We are looking for more sponsors for this Forum -- if you interested please let us know. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to send a note to info@omahastreetcar.com.

I hope you will be able to join us at our Spring Forum!

Gerald W. Kopiasz, President
Omaha Streetcar
304 South 16th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
http://www.omahastreetcar.com/

Edited by KevinKorell, 18 May 2007 - 12:01 AM.

[KevinKorell]

Omaha Streetcar will be hosting its Spring Forum at inPlay at 1502 Cuming Street on May 23rd. Doors open at 5:30pm, with the event beginning at 6:00pm. Speakers will include John Renne from the University of New Orleans and Jeff Beals of Grow Omaha. The central theme of this event is transit oriented development. For more information visit http://www.omahastreetcar.com/ .

[KevinKorell]

From Omaha, NE World-Herald, 11/20/08:

A streetcar for downtown Omaha? Mayor Mike Fahey wants to move ahead on talks before he leaves office next June.

Locate more of this story here.

[KevinKorell]

From Omaha, NE World-Herald, 11/25/08:

The Omaha City Council wants to take a closer look at streetcars.

Voting 4-3 today, council members agreed to allow the city to pay Heritage Services $350,000 for a financial analysis that will look at whether a streetcar line in Omaha is possible.

Full story here.

[KevinKorell]

From KMTV-TV, Channel 3 in Omaha, NE, 11/26/08:

Mayor's Trolley Still on Track

A move to derail Mayor Mike Fahey's downtown streetcar came up one vote short at City Hall.

This story is here.

[KevinKorell]

From the Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, 12/1/08:

Omaha considers streetcar system

The Omaha City Council agreed Tuesday to spend $40,000 to study the feasibility of building a streetcar system in Omaha.

More here.

[Sloan]

Omaha, NE — Definitive Study Launched January 2012/Rail Transit Online After years of discussion about the possibility of a streetcar system in Omaha, an 18-month feasibility study will examine the benefit of such a system from downtown to the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The World Herald reports that the $1.3 million study sponsored by the Metro transit agency will look at expanded bus service and bus rapid transit in addition to streetcars. Consulting firm HDR will undertake the study to determine the locally preferred options for the area, including extensions to university campuses and a major mall in plus some other neighborhoods. There have been four other studies involving streetcars since 1995, but this one is intended to be the definitive study on where the mode should be employed. Funding for the study comes in large part from a $700,000 federal grant to Metro, with contributions from the city, the university, Mutual of Omaha, the Omaha Public Power District, the Metropolitan Utilities District, and a mall developer.

[KevinKorell]

Omaha, NE World-Herald, 1/31/13:

The vision of public transportation across central Omaha includes a light-rail system that could connect a growing University of Nebraska Medical Center campus to downtown.

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