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These are not your grandfather's streetcars, those boxy things from a century ago that carried passengers through downtown or to the Ramona Park saloons on Reeds Lake.
They're closer to bullet trains than they are to San Francisco's "Rice-A-Roni" trolleys, at least in appearance.
But, if a group of well-connected local business leaders and politicians has its way, streetcars will roll down new tracks on some of the same downtown Grand Rapids streets -- at a price tag of more than $69 million.
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