Cities Turn to Streetcars to Spur Economic Development

"The fact that Tucson could reinvent itself in the middle of the worst recession to hit the state since 1928 is astonishing."

Tucson has built four-mile-long streetcar tracks that will run between the University of Arizona campus and downtown. Only two of the eight cars that will be used to ferry passengers every 10 minutes have arrived, and operations will not start until next year.

By Daniel C. Vock, Staff Writer

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