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Article: Reinventing West Street
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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Imagine a West Street with trolleys or streetcars whistling their
way down the thoroughfare's many business districts, picking up
visitors and commuters at dozens of stops between City Dock and
Parole.
A state study that will be released to the City Council later
this month maps out a new West Street, complete with rail lines for
streetcars and turnabouts at tricky West Street intersections at
Chinquapin Round Road, Gibralter Avenue and Solomons Island Road.
The enhancements will encourage development and create a more
aesthetically pleasing thoroughfare into the city, officials said.
"(The removal of streetcars and railways) is probably the
greatest deliberate destruction in Western ...