In case you didn’t tune into today’s Board of Supervisor’s Budget & Finance Committee meeting on SFGTV, which isn’t as boring as it might sound, committee reviewed the pending contract to restore 16 additional historic PCC streetcars.
Photo courtesy Ian Green
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.
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.
Henry onboard New Orleans streetcar no. 952
Remember that both Muni and BART fares will be going up starting July 1.
