Ft. Worth paper says do the streetcar project

Time to step into 21st century

David Crossley, Dec 06, 10.

Fort Worth: City Should Trust It’s Vision on Streetcars
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Fort Worth shouldn’t be shaking in its cowboy boots over the streetcar project, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram:

This is the city that’s swinging for the fences with the Trinity River Vision, a $900 million plan to reroute a river and reclaim an industrial wasteland. It helped create the Alliance Corridor, turning empty prairies into a teeming job center. It played a pivotal role in the formation of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and the bomber plant in World War II.

All were bold, risky moves that demanded leadership and political courage. Trinity River Vision is in the early stages, but the other deals were game-changers for North Texas.

With that history, it’s baffling that the city is getting so locked up on the streetcar proposal. Fort Worth has been prepping for this moment for years, studying rail options and creating the zoning and financing structures to spur urban villages.

It just needs to stick to its guns and step into the 21st century.