Downtown Trolleys Are a Good Idea. So You Know It’ll Never Work.

From: Dallas Observer
By: Jim Schutze // October 14, 2009

Clang went the trolley: We've been following the plan to put streetcars downtown closely (see our story at left) because, being hippies, we think streetcars are a really cool idea. Being the Dallas Observer and aware of what happens to good ideas at City Hall, we're also watching closely to see how City Hall screws up this one.

Grudgingly, Buzz has to say that the two Dallas City Council members who asked the best questions at Tuesday's council briefing on downtown trolleys were Ron Natinsky and Dave Neumann. Both of them wanted to know why the proposed governing body for a downtown trolley system would put the city of Dallas in a minority role, since the system will be in downtown Dallas and Dallas will be paying for it.

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