"Like the streetcars that operated in Lancaster until the late-1940s, the proposed electric streetcar system would operate on rails embedded in the street. Unlike the old system, which was in place before automobiles were common, the rails will be on one side of the street. That would allow automobiles to pass in the other lane"
lol.....HOW? Traffic is so congested there is no way to pass. Does this mean all parallel parking would be eliminated on that side?

Pass the trolley???LOL???? Traveling North on Queen street, for me to be in the right lane by James Street, I have to switch lanes at Chestnut (If I can!) God help if there is a lane closed eight blocks ahead!!!

And turning at the train station means the tracks and trolley would have to cross lanes.

I have said in the press in two published letters: This is the second stupidest idea in ten years. (Promoted by some of the same people)

I should nbote the New Era editors agreed with me in a editorial: that the existing trollley-style buses are fine, and are not locked into a route.

The problem with wasting $150-200 Million is that every preposterous scheme that follows in its wake seems like chump change. I bet $300-400,000 per car turns into something much higher. And its going to serve the white elephant on the square? and the railroad station? Hardly anyone using either will live on the route. Will we drive to the train tracks and park and than get on the trolley? Someone, help me. My head is spinning. Is every other human need in the city met and we need to just waste some money?

I think the rail car purchase is a very good idea, a real money maker.

Look, once the trolley car is refurbished, it could be placed in a museum, say in the first hundred block of N. Queen, along with the fabled Rocky Springs Merry-Go-Round and a few quilts. What a tourist attraction they would be. The income from millions of conventioneers alone visiting the museum would more than cover the cost of restoration of both.IMHO

You forgot to include this:

should be a spoof..

"A Streetcar Named Undesired!"

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