Streetcar News Updates – $2 million in funds approved

While we’ve got streetcars on our minds, here’s some good news about the Fort Worth Streetcar project: the North Central Texas Council of Governments has approved using $1.6 million for a grant to the City of Fort Worth to fund a design consultant and study on the project. The city and The T will kick in funds to bring the total up to $2 million. The city will be bringing on a consultant to do detailed design schematics and operational details, which means that we’ll then start to see some concrete Fort Worth streetcar design plans.

This is a big step forward – the current streetcar plan doesn’t have specific design and operation details like actual track layouts, etc. so once this consultant and study are complete we should get a real, detailed plan for the streetcar network. It will be interesting to see how the specifics of track alignments, etc. all pan out.