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February 18, 2010

New Street Car Line In The Works From Stimulus Funds. New Orleans News Story | WDSU New Orleans

The New Orleans street car line received an economic boost from President Barack Obama’s administration.
The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) will get a $45 million grant.

Mayoral candidate Jonah Bascle led protest that halted St. Charles Ave. streetcar service | NOLA.com

On Monday, Jonah Bascle was joined by about 50 demonstrators who halted streetcar service along the St. Charles Avenue neutral ground at Martin Luther King Drive for several hours.
Though the Canal Street line's red streetcars, in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act, are equipped with hydraulic pumps on both sides to accommodate wheelchairs, the St. Charles cars' historic designation trumps the ADA and prohibits the streetcars from obtaining modern features, including wheelchair lifts or air conditioning.

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January 15, 2010

Streetcar expansion plans benefit from changes in federal financing rules | NOLA.com

The Obama administration is changing the criteria that determine federal financing for transportation projects in a way that could give proposals to expand streetcar operations in New Orleans a leg up over competing projects elsewhere.

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September 8, 2009

RTA floats proposal for 3 new streetcar lines in New Orleans | NOLA.com

Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune
New Orleans transit planners hope to expand streetcar service to the North Rampart Street and St. Claude Avenue corridor, Loyola Avenue and Convention Center Boulevard.

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August 4, 2009

New Orleans Streetcar Line - St. Charles Avenue

...Streetcars are not trolleys! We call them streetcars in New Orleans, and these olive green beauties on the St. Charles Ave. line have been with us for more than one and a half centuries. Before they were streetcars, the St. Charles Streetcars were part of the Carrollton Railroad...

New Orleans RTA - Veolia Transport contract

Veolia Transport said that it will be "responsible for all aspects of the performance of public transportation in New Orleans, including operations, safety, maintenance, customer care, routes and schedules, capital planning and grant administration...

Karl Malden: Oscar, Emmy-Winning Actor (Streetcar Named Desire) Dies at 97 | washingtonpost.com

Karl Malden, 97, an Academy Award-winning actor who excelled in plainspoken, working-class roles, including the awkward Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and a brave priest in "On the Waterfront," died today at his home in Los Angeles...

New Orleans Canal Streetcar to be shut down for 8 weeks | wwltv.com

The Canal Street streetcar line will stop on July 8, 2009 and be out of commission for approximately eight weeks while workers replace cables...

New Orleans streetcars win stimulus cash | NOLA.com

The U.S. Transportation Department announced Friday that the Regional Transit Authority will receive $2.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money to improve the St. Charles Avenue line.

The money will be used to expedite the replacement of crossties and to perform vehicle maintenance. The line's decaying wooden ties will be replaced with composite ties that are expected to last 50 years, officials said.

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December 14, 2008

Red Streetcars Back In New Orleans For First Time Since Katrina

Six of New Orleans' iconic red streetcars were back on track, rolling across Canal Street just in time for Christmas. The red cars have modern features the older St. Charles green street cars lack such as hydraulic lifts for riders with disabilities and better heating systems. READ MORE

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