Streetcar Expansion in NOLA

The folks at the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority have been working on street railway expansion for years.  Just as the Canal line was coming on line in 2004, NORTA was working on the original proposal to bring back service to Bywater and the Ninth, resurrecting the "Desire" line.  The storm put a serious kink in those plans, since there's no longer a Ninth Ward to service.  In the four years since the storm, NORTA has been working to re-package the Desire proposal, considering ideas such as running to Press St. or the Industrial Canal, and possibly even running an extension of the Riverfront line further downriver.

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