\n\u201cWe have to plan for the future,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe in 10 years, we would ask, \u2018Why didn\u2019t we do this?\u2019 It will be 10 times more expensive, and the cost of gas will be unaffordable.\u201d\n\n\u2014\nDowntowns Across the U.S. See Streetcars in Their Future<\/a>,\nBy BOB DRIEHAUS,\nNew York Times,\nPublished: August 13, 2008\n<\/blockquote>\nValdosta likes to be visible nationally (TitleTown), so think about this:\n\nAfter looking into streetcar systems in Seattle, Tacoma, Wash., and Charlotte, Mr. Dohoney became convinced that they spur growth. \u201cCincinnati has to compete with other cities for investment,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to compete for talent and for place of national prominence.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nYet that could be growth without sprawl:\n\n[streetcars] serve to shrink residents\u2019 everyday world of work, shopping and entertainment by bringing services and businesses to one area.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat's a feature attractive not only to city dwellers, but also to us plowboys\nout here in the country who like to go to the city but don't want the city coming to us.\nValdosta used to have a streetcar system. I don't remember it in use, but I do remember seeing remnants of its rails in a few streets.\nStreetcars would probably be more expensive to implement than commuter rail, because\ntracks would have to be laid and automobile traffic would have to be organized\naround it.\nCommuter rail using existing freight tracks would be easier to do first.\nBut now while Valdosta is planning ahead would be a good time to see about\nfitting streetcars into the plan.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here's another form of transit that could nicely complement busses and commuter rail: streetcars. The New York Times mentions several cities that have reimplemented streetcar systems. Pictured here is a potential plan for yet another city: Austin, Texas: As a Cincinnati streetcar proponent says: \u201cWe have to plan for the future,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[2205,2204,1083,2206,2128,2203,45],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-austin","tag-charlotte","tag-cincinnati","tag-commuter-rail","tag-planning","tag-streetcar","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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