[PRCo] Re: New Orleans Trolleys & PRM

[Fred Schneider]

I think I can agree with this.  There are a few more important issues  
in the world than public transport in New Orleans.  I even question  
how many of the half million people who resided in Orleans Parish  
will ever come home.  How many of those who do will have jobs?  How  
many will have homes that can be made habitable?  How many employers  
will find people who want to work?  And who would want to live in a  
city that is below river level and with a river to land differential  
that is increasing by about one inch a year?  And we're worried about  
borrowing streetcars?  Incredible!    So shoot me.

On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:47 PM, James B. Holland wrote:

> hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:
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>> Speaking of New Orleans.......and, with the way this list can discuss
>> many topics, I am suprised we have not focused on New Orleans.
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> I am on  Not  A  Few  Transit  related lists    ----    everything
> concerning NOPSI on these lists has been  *-Speculation-*  to the  
> point
> of absurdity and is another black mark against railfans.       While I
> staunchly defend Railfans  (and everyone on this list is a railfan by
> definition whether or not one actually admits to it)  the  NOPSI
> disaster is straining that defense.       Some lists have canceled All
> Talk about NOPSI until valid information is available.
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> As it stands now, the city of New Orleans is being evacuated which Has
> To Include NOPSI employees.       The effort currently is to reach out
> to the  People  who have lost so much and have to start over.        
> Then
> New Orleans needs to be cleaned up so it is healthy for people to  
> be in
> the vicinity.       Some time after that rebuilding may begin  --   
> where
> transit fits into this picture is unknown at the moment.
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> I seriously doubt we need minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day,
> even week by week details on what is happening to TrolleyCars in
> NO.       If anyone feels strongly about restoring the trolleycars
> there, then please pitch in and do so  --  but random speculation  
> about
> what  *-they-*  should be doing to save these trolleycars is  
> fruitless.
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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