All Aboard! - Studying Streetcars in Saint Paul

Saint Paul had streetcars from 1872 to 1953. In more recent years, Seattle, Toronto and other cities have built modern streetcar lines. To learn more about Saint Paul's Streetcar Feasibility Study visit www.stpaul.gov/streetcars.

[@785duck]

I miss the streetcars in San Francisco. The light rail there and streetcars are a great way to get around.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

OK, it's over nine years later (2022) and that's more than enough time for evaluation. Has the "City of St Paul" initiated any new streetcar lines by now?

[@markholmgren3697]

I remember the street car tracks on Marshall Avenue , I drove my old soapbox Derby race car down Marshall Avenue hill starting a Pascal street through the lights across Snelling Avenue all the way down and across the Lake Street Bridge and a ways into Minneapolis before my car coasted to a stop, passing some cars that had motors.

[@dianemay6359]

We need a streetcar route going down East Seventh Street in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood to help us stimulate business here. It would also help bring students and faculty to Metropolitan State University by connecting to the lightrail line that ends in Lowertown.

[@nicholboy]

Spend, Spend, Spend!!!

[@ScottBergerMN]

Maybe it's the romantic perceptions, maybe it's the smooth ride, maybe it's the spacious feeling. Whatever it is, people like streetcars and they don't like buses. Let's not only match MSP's former glorious transit system - let's exceed it, serving the cities and the near-burbs as well!

[@gro_skunk]

bubzki2 that would be the most expensive public works project in the history of the United states

[@26095]

Yep. It's called "growth" and sometimes known as "civilisation."