Tuesday Links
In Ft. Greene, the Sounds of Drummers, Handled Gingerly [NY Times] Brownfield Cleanup Program Expands To Brooklyn [NY1] Census: Columbia Street-Area Population Boom [CG Patch] Mayor: Our Property Tax is Not That High [NY Post] Work to Begin on Willoughby Pedestrian Plaza [McBrooklyn] Probably No Trolley for Red Hook [Curbed] Jane’s Carousel Progress [Dumbo NYC]…
In Ft. Greene, the Sounds of Drummers, Handled Gingerly [NY Times]
Brownfield Cleanup Program Expands To Brooklyn [NY1]
Census: Columbia Street-Area Population Boom [CG Patch]
Mayor: Our Property Tax is Not That High [NY Post]
Work to Begin on Willoughby Pedestrian Plaza [McBrooklyn]
Probably No Trolley for Red Hook [Curbed]
Jane’s Carousel Progress [Dumbo NYC]
Bushwick: Trendy, Etc. [Crain’s]
By CGar on April 19, 2011 11:58 AM :
“middle class people to seem to love them”
What does this mean?
It means that middle class people who do not like to take buses love taking trolleys, even if they share all the same characteristics of a bus.
Portland is a prime example, where they have a modern trolley system in downtown and immediately adjacent areas that is heavily used by recent middle class arrivals.
Other cities have shown that even having buses designed to look like trolleys will get passengers who would never take public transportation otherwise.
For many people, buses have a certain low class image that trains do not have.
Note: I possibly could have substituted the term “white” for “middle-class”.
Seems a trolley is more a novelty than a viable means of transportation.
“middle class people to seem to love them”
What does this mean?
I agree with scott 100%.
Eh, I don’t see trolleys like they were planning in Red Hook as having any real transit use.
The cost more than buses to build, cost more to operate, have the same (or less) capacity, have the same (or slower) speed, and are less flexible.
On the other hand, middle class people to seem to love them.
A modern light rail system would be a different story, but even then I don’t think they would work well at all in that section of Brooklyn.
aren’t trollies slow as hell and walking would be faster? they always look so slow.. especially the one on mr. roger’s neighborhood.
*rob*
I’m sad for the trolley; it could have been amazing for residents and businesses.
It’s a shame they decided not to restore the Red Hook Trolley, as that nabe defintitely needs more public transportation.
they shouldnt have gotten those abatements to begin with. it’s nothing but welfare for the semi-wealthy and upwardly mobile! screw them and their shit construction hamster boxes.
*rob*