As luck would have it, both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have stories today one how mass-transit trains seem to have benefited from last week’s elections. The Times says the streetcar, which America invented but Europe widely adopted–may make a comeback as a greener alternative to diesel buses.
Areas such as Denver, Norfolk and Houston have already set up tram systems to cart people around. Other cities, like Tampa and Charlotte, want the old-school Rice-a-Roni style trolleys.
Over at the Journal, they’re saying 23 initiatives were approved on Election Day that will inject $75 billion into transportation, including a high-speed network in Calironia and an expansion of the system in Seattle. Seattle of course took the concept of the monorail out of sci fi novels and introduced it at its World’s Fair in 1962.