L.A. Metblogger Jason Burns has the perfect recommendation for the new downtown streetcars proposed by the Bringing Back Broadway initiative: Make them vintage, à la San Francisco’s famous trolleys and cable cars.
Burns makes an eloquent case for such vehicles in his full post, a snippet of which reads:
While the very notion of a new streetcar line in Downtown Los Angeles should excite all of us, L.A. would be missing a monumental opportunity by installing a modern streetcar line that pays no homage to our fair city’s past.
Here, here! This idea is one downtown initiative that Dateline>City of Angels can really get behind — as long as the underlying mechanicals are up to date. We wouldn’t want the trolley line doing to tourists what Sinai and Olivet did in 2001.
