http://newslanc.com/2009/08/18/commissioners-express-caution-regarding-streetcars/ News, Comment and Culture for Lancaster County Wed, 23 May 2012 15:27:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://newslanc.com/2009/08/18/commissioners-express-caution-regarding-streetcars/comment-page-1/#comment-7291 Anonymous Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:17:12 +0000 http://newslanc.com/?p=8537#comment-7291 Just try to dive down North Prince or Queen streets with a street car in one lane gong slow and stopping for passengers and the cars in only one lane of traffic. You will have a moving bottleneck that will definitely upset the people trying to go through town on Prince Street or Queen Street. We have the Trolley bus that can change lanes and pull over to pick up passengers and that seems to be working. Lancaster in the 21st. century was not a city made for street cars. And why is Red Rose not reducing the cost of trips to their riders instead of spending 150,000 on this study? Just try to dive down North Prince or Queen streets with a street car in one lane gong slow and stopping for passengers and the cars in only one lane of traffic. You will have a moving bottleneck that will definitely upset the people trying to go through town on Prince Street or Queen Street. We have the Trolley bus that can change lanes and pull over to pick up passengers and that seems to be working. Lancaster in the 21st. century was not a city made for street cars. And why is Red Rose not reducing the cost of trips to their riders instead of spending 150,000 on this study?

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