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Article: New Orleans streetcar line reopens
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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NEW ORLEANS -- For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the
1920s-era St. Charles Avenue streetcar will clank today along its
entire 13-mile route.
Its bell signals that some aspects of life are returning to
normal nearly three years after Katrina flooded 80 percent of the
city. But the line's resurgence masks the reality that other mass
transit continues to struggle.
Once the final mile or so reopens, tourists, downtown workers and
bar-hopping college students will be able to ride the popular, un-
air-conditioned St. Charles line from the downtown business district
through mansion-lined streets and other areas nearly 24 hours a day.
In harder-hit and slowly recovering neighborhoods, ...