Just recently NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio recommended the use of a trolley or light rail system for northern Brooklyn by the Brooklyn Navy Yard to connect all the new and burgeoning neighborhoods of Queens and Brooklyn.
At one time Brooklyn had quite an extensive series of connecting trolleys and light rail (some of the tracks and poles for electricity still remain throughout Bklyn).
This is a view looking down Oriental Boulevard from the college gate on oriental Boulevard. This Trolley took pretty much the same route as our present day B1 bus, although it was “greener”, cheaper, more fun- and came more frequently-never stopping for breaks.
Maybe one day we can have a Trolley take our students to the front gates of our KCC campus instead of a “Cheese Bus”- sometimes older is better.
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