I’m not saying that streetcars don’t promote urban development clearly they seem to be doing that, though there’s room for disagreement about how much the development really requires the streetcar, and whether the land value uplift from streetcars is durable.There’s an urgent need for more research on how much of the ridership benefits of a streetcar are truly results of intrinsic benefits of the streetcar (such as the ride quality, the legibility provided by tracks in the street, etc) as opposed to results of other improvements introduced at the same time (including speed and reliability improvements, better public information, off-board fare collection, and possible differences in operations culture). Streetcars do attract more ridership than the buses they replace, though it’s not always clear why.
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