Second Melbourne Tram En Route
Photo courtesy Ian Green
Nat Ford discusses Muni safety on KQED’s Forum
KQED Radio’s program Forum dedicated an hour this morning discussing Muni safety following Monday’s historic streetcar crash and a major crash last month at West Portal Station which which injured 47 people.
F-line accident at Noe Street
Jamison Wieser photo.
The Key System’s March of Progress
Before BART and AC Transit, the East Bay was served by the Key System, an extensive streetcar network which linked to San Francisco over the lower deck of the Bay Bridge and arriving at the Transbay Terminal. This 1945 promotional film shows the once great Key System at its peak.
Streetcar No. 1 Restoration Underway
Muni’s flagship streetcar, 1912 No. 1, has safely arrived at the shops of the contractor, Brookville Equipment Company in Pennsylvania (below), the first time in its 97-year life that the streetcar has left San Francisco. Reports we’ve received tell us restoration has already started.
2010 Museums in Motion Calendar Preview
Castro’s Trial Plaza Extended Four Months
Back to the Future?
So begins a story in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, accompanied by a picture of tourists riding a St. Charles line streetcar. Small irony here: New Orleans was one of the last privately owned big-city transit systems in the U.S., a subsidiary of an electric utility until the 1980s.
A Wish Come True
Henry onboard New Orleans streetcar no. 952
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