Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the Twenty-first Century

by Gloria Ohland (Editor), Shelley Poticha (Editor)

This second edition of an award-winning book explains how to plan, finance and build streetcar systems also discusses the status of the U.S. streetcar movement and adds case studies of new streetcar systems in Seattle and Savannah (in addition to case studies on Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Little Rock). There's a foreword by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, and updated contact info for every streetcar project planned or underway in the U.S. This richly illustrated book is intended to promote a learning network among the cities and transit agencies that are interested in building new systems, with or without federal funding.

Paperback

First published January 1, 2009