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Kingman9K t1_jdt38hk wrote

Bring back the streetcars

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MahBoy t1_jdtbeqf wrote

I would love to see the streetcar network revitalized. In my opinion, a light rail network powered by solar energy with intermediate bus service would be ideal for managing the public transportation needs of Rhode Island.

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laterbacon t1_jdwbrhr wrote

The R-Line should be an electric tram and there should be a matching east-west R-Line that goes from the Hartford section of Providence through Olneyville, down Broadway, through downtown, then using the transit tunnel and continuing through Wayland Square over the Henderson Bridge to East Providence. In real dollars it would be really expensive but the benefits would be huge.

Something that wouldn't be nearly as ambitious or expensive would be bus lanes, especially for the R Line on North Main Street. I hate that a bus full of people is subject to traffic delays from congestion caused mostly by single occupancy vehicles. We also need bus lanes on Charles Street at least from Orms Street to Silver Spring.

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METAclaw52 t1_jdvabyg wrote

They got rid of them because car companies bought them out, ran them into the ground until nobody used them, then dismantled them

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_jdw2upx wrote

United Electric Railways

>The United Electric Railways Company (UER) was the Providence-based operator of the system of interurban streetcars, trolleybuses, and trolley freight in the state of Rhode Island in the early- to mid-twentieth century. The UER was chartered in 1919, after the previous operator of the streetcar, the Rhode Island Company, went into temporary receivership. The company was placed under the control of the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission upon inception, in an effort to limit the impact to service in the event of financial difficulties.

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boulevardofdef t1_jdx3xsj wrote

You must not have gotten the memo, every cultural development that people don't like was a conspiracy

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