City’s Red Streetcars Return To Service
On the a little good news is better than no good news front:
The candy-apple red streetcar is the latest New Orleans icon to make a post-Katrina comeback.The Regional Transit Authority today will put six of the streetcars back in service, more than three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded the entire fleet.
The cars will roll on the Canal Street tracks starting at 11:30 a.m. today, when the RTA’s board of commissioners and other city officials will ride one of the cars during a ceremony.
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After the ceremony, the agency plans to add one streetcar a month until a restored fleet of 24 is rumbling down the Canal Street tracks, according to RTA spokeswoman Rosalind Blanco Cook.
On the bad news front, at one a month, it will take more than five years after Katrina hit to get 24 streetcars running. I don’t know about you, but that sure seems like an awful long time for the “most powerful nation in the world.”
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