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• San Antonio: City's daily paper backs streetcar plan as "precursor" to larger light rail
  
  
• Seattle: Development of citywide streetcar system advances
  
  
• Oklahoma City: Streetcar project moves forward as basic route plan is accepted
  
  
• Cincinnati: They're at it again! Anti-rail extremists push ANOTHER ballot measure to outlaw rail transit
  
  
• Washington, DC: First starter lines of proposed citywide streetcar system "taking shape", as city seeks operating contractor
  
  
• Cincinnati: City officials keep streetcar project moving forward, despite resistance of new anti-rail Ohio governor
  
  
• Providence: Transit agency narrows route options to three for proposed 2-mile streetcar starter line
  
  
• Augusta (Georgia): Streetcar desire still alive
  
  
• Ft. Lauderdale: Streetcar still desired — This time, it's "The Wave"
  
  
• Buffalo: Advocacy groups fund streetcar study
  
  
• Charlotte: Lynx light rail alignment provides demonstration track for new Kinkisharyo hybrid streetcar
  
  
• San Antonio: County approves plan for streetcar starter line
  
  
• Cincinnati: Light rail streetcar project advances with jolts of state, local funding
  
  
• Oklahoma City: Light rail streetcar plan takes shape, with opening scheduled for 2020
  
  
• New Haven: Streetcar starter line priced at "less than $30 million"
  
  
• Waco: Business leaders promote streetcar plan
  
  
• Augusta (Georgia): Streetcar system would boost economic development
  
  
• Providence: Will streetcars return to New England's "Creative Capital"?
  
  
• Boise: Civic leaders push light rail streetcar plan
  
  
• Oklahoma City voters approve funding for light rail streetcar
  
  
• Tucson's Light Rail Streetcar Project Making Progress
  
  
• Reno planning to convert new "BRT" line to streetcar system
  
  
• Winston-Salem, NC: Officials eye federal stimulus funds for modern streetcar proposal
  
  
• San Antonio: New light rail/streetcar concept gains support
  
  
• Cincinnati: Rail Transit Wins at Last!
  
  
• Cincinnati: Streetcar plan, and future of all rail, to be decided in November 3rd vote
  
  
• Detroit: Private funding boosts light rail project
  
  
• Augusta, Georgia: City's streetcar plan gains momentum
  
  
• Tulsa: Getting serious about rail transit?
  
  
• Milwaukee: Feds OK nearly $55 million for streetcar starter line ... but bickering stalls progress
  
  
• Portland, Oregon: New streetcar line finally gets federal funding
  
  
• Waco: Streetcar possibility attracts local interest
  
  
• Ft. Lauderdale: Mayor seeks to revive light rail plan
  
  
• Detroit: As "BRT" plan fizzles, light rail moves to center stage
  
  
• Stamford: Proposed streetcar system favored in study
  
  
• US streetcar development gets another boost from Blumenauer
  
  
• Des Moines: Light rail eyed for downtown "people mover"
  
  
• Ft. Worth: New streetcar plan moving forward?
  
  
• Omaha: Analysis paralysis? Yet another light rail study...
  
  
• Grand Rapids: Streetcar proposal gets boost from projections of major benefits
  
  
• Stamford eyes light rail streetcar system
  
  
• Miami: Streetcar project moves forward with City-County financing package
  
  
• Grand Rapids: Civic leaders explore plan for streetcars
  
  
• Seattle: South Lake Union Streetcar nears Dec. 12th startup
  
  
• Little Rock: Another "Rapid Streetcar"? Communities eye extending River Rail to airport
  
  
• Tucson: Streetcar project under way in coordination with downtown revitalization
  
  
• Kansas City Light Rail: Would Rapid Streetcar + Budget Engineering = a Viable Project?
  
  
• Rapid Streetcar: Rescaling Design and Cost for More Affordable Light Rail Transit
  
  
• Streetcar vs. Bus: Operating cost comparison
  
  
• Portland: Streetcar extension to South Waterfront district opens
  
  
• Streetcars Making a Vigorous Comeback
  
  
• Photo-Report: Portland Streetcar (Light Rail Transit) – Latest Extension Project Towards SW Gibbs is incremental Step Towards Lake Oswego
  
  
• Photo-Report: Portland Streetcar (Light Rail Transit) – Providing Efficient Central City Mobility
  
  
• Portland: Streetcar's first extension opens
  
  
• Portland Light Rail Streetcar: Key Facts
  
  
• Tacoma Link: The Little Tram That Could
  
  
• Tacoma Streetcar Brings Modern Electric Rail Transit to Puget Sound
  
  
• Tacoma Link Light Rail Streetcar Line Heads Toward Startup
  
  
• How Light Rail Streetcars increase Street Capacity