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Huh? Streetcars Coming To Orange County? Yes, Indeed.

Contributed by ScottMercer on July 11th, 2007 at 10:56 am

This one sure slapped me in the side of the head with almost no warning. Apparently, the city of Irvine is going to go ahead and build a streetcar line from the Metrolink/Amtrak station to the “Great Park.” So, a bit of an excursion route as well as a destination route.

I recall reading something briefly about this plan months and months ago, but it fell out of my brain since not a peep was heard about it since then. Please note this is NOT the proposed light rail line going to Huntington Beach proposed a few months ago (and shouted down by NIMBYs). Apparently the money for this 4 mile line is mostly (but not all) in place and the cars could be running by 2012. That is, if I read the article in the LA Times today right. There’s even lip service paid to making this into a county wide system someday if other adjacent cities pony up some cash for expansion. Go streetcars! I’ll be there in 2012 to ride on the first day.

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There are 5 Responses to “Huh? Streetcars Coming To Orange County? Yes, Indeed.”:

  1. I hadn’t heard that th HB line got shouted down…. you’re talking about the one from Disneyland to the Beach, right?

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  2. Well, I guess not definitively shouted down, but let’s just say that the reception to the idea from the public (that lived along the line) was less than rapturous. I do hope that line will come back at some point, but it’s totally in the blue sky stage right now, and this Irvine plan is much farther along in the planning, with money actually put aside for it.

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  3. I really hope this gets the ball rolling on getting people out of their cars and into the bus’s and trains in orange county. traffic can be horrific.

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  4. It’s hard to imagine that in the old days of the Pacific Electric Railway, a line went down tne beach all the way through the OC.

    According to the OCTA, Rapid buses should be coming through.

    Anyone trying to bring mass transit of any kind to Orange County deserves a medal and a hero’s welcome.

    I’ll travel down to Irvine just to try it out.

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