Modern Streetcar (Part 2)

Part 2 of a larger DVD available to anyone or organization interested in light rail transit. This video was part of a fund raiser presentation I produced for the Purple Line in Washington,DC. Many thanks to YouTuber - StreetCar01 for the footage(of which I jazzed up with music and edits on this end), who also sees a real need to educate and show people that there are environmentally responsible and economically feasible transportation alternatives, such as the modern streetcar, in place and coexisting with normal life all around the world. For more information on LRT and streetcars, or event planning/production support for concerned communities... contact me through this channel. http://www.youtube.com/StellarCire or eric@potomactalent.com. I probably won't have the answer but can share with you what and who I know. Soundtrack by www.joederenzo.com. Stats and great info from www.reconnectingamerica.org (thanks again John).

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Tram
• Modern
• StreetCar
• Trolley
• LRT
• Light
• Rail
• Transportation
• Bike
• Traffic
• Purple
• Line
• Urban
• Portland

[mmonicque]

Seattle and Tacoma has one like this

[StellarCire]

thanks for the comment and tour of your channel. good stuff! -Stellar

[747K]

San Diego need a modern Street car.

[StellarCire]

Thanks for commenting. I'm finding that universally speaking, all communities will need to look at alternatives such as street cars and light rail. It's just getting impossible to sustain a car culture anymore. And you have excellent taste in music. Please check out my favorites and I would like to subscribe to your channel for your videos. - Stellar

[BandoNintendo]

2,000 million is not a number. I believe you mean 2 billion??

[ondra521]

The first tram is from Ostrava in Czech republic :)

[jemdude22]

New York should seriously consider restoring its tram network. A metropolis like New York without street-level public transit that is electric is simply not acceptable.

[jemdude22]

San Francisco has both street cable cars and electric streetcars.

The famous cable cars are not motorised itself but being dragged along by a moving cable beneath the vehicle. There is no overhead wire for cable cars.

Conventional streetcars or Light Rail vehicles in San Francisco have electric motors and the vehicles pick up power from an overhead wire by means of a trolley pole or pantagraph.

[strassenbahntk]

Man, do you paint your house or buy washing machines every day or what? That's the most absurd argument you pro-car dorks are using over and over. Get used to the thought that you too will have to get off your macho SUV soon and start thinking about alternative forms of transport.

Streetcars are the most advanced form of transportation in medium-sized cities. They have lots of advantages, and this excellent movie shows most of them. Buses are only a weak replacement.

[jonghyun725]

I think San Francisco has a lot of both. It's cable cars are iconic, but it also has a pretty substantial streetcar/tram network (the Muni).

[WRCExpert]

Czech trams in Portland and being Czech Im proud of it..

[RayChiTown]

No. I was responding to BlackPocketKnife's comment about the lines in San Francisco. THOSE are cable cars. Where they grab onto a moving cable running under the street, instead of getting power from an overhead line. They are different from streetcars.

[StellarCire]

I'm not an expert...just the producer:) The terms I've heard are 1. Street Cars 2. Trams or 3.'Modern Trolleys'. Additionally, LRT or Light Rail Transit... which is a hybrid of a faster version of a Street Car (Tram, trolley). Here in Washington, DC we are trying to build such a hybrid to connect communities between our Metro System...Something that can get some speed on it on the stretches like our Metro, yet be as pedestrian friendly and 'paced' for density when in the city such as a trolley.

[RayChiTown]

I thought those were cable cars, not streetcars. Does the same thing though.