[PRCo] Re: NOLA Streetcars?

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> Fred

    Any status of the New Orleans Street Cars?   Any of them saved?   In light of the tragedy which I
    know was terrible, putting that aside, as a Street Car buff, just wondering?

    Jerry Matsick


> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/10/01 Sat PM 08:32:20 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org,  Bruce Bente <bbente at cytechusa.com>, 
>         Bruce Wells <cuzinbruce at verizon.net>
> Subject: [PRCo]
> 
> The following was forwarded to be:  I'm simply passing on without  
> verification.   Assuming that the rail cars were dry, this may  
> indicate that power distribution facilities were either down or it is  
> much easier to worry about other things at the moment.     Fred  
> Schneider
> 
> Subject: NORTA to Resume 4 transit routes
> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:09:28 +0000
> I copied today (10-1-05) the below from the NORTA website.  St.  
> Charles is the only line in the regular part of New Orleans, but will  
> use buses.  Gen de Gaulle & Algiers are across the Mississippi River  
> and Kenner is a western suburb.
>     Bob Campbell
> 
> 
> RTA service will resume with four transit lines: 12-St. Charles,  
> 114-115-General de Gaulle, 108-Algiers Local, and 201-Kenner Loop.
> 9-30-2005
> 
> All four lines will run along the regular routes they used before  
> Hurricane Katrina, although 12-St. Charles will use buses instead of  
> streetcars until further notice.
> 
> 201-Kenner Loop will follow the same schedule times as before the  
> hurricane. However, 12-St. Charles, 114-115-General de Gaulle, and  
> 108-Algiers Local will run only from 8 am to 6 pm, 7 days a week, in  
> keeping with the current Orleans Parish curfew hours. The last bus on  
> each line will start its trip from the end of the line well before 6  
> pm, and in a few cases before 5 pm, so that it can complete service  
> before the curfew takes effect.
> 
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