Are upscale streetcars in GR’s future?
A group of Grand Rapids civic leaders are spearheading an initiative that may result in restructuring the city’s mass transit system to include upscale streetcars. The benefits could be measurable in billions of dollars.
According to excerpts from the story:
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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