I believe we had this conversation earlier in the week.
A consultant tells the City of Winston-Salem that a $60 million streetcar line would add “hundreds of millions to Forsyth County’s property tax base. HDR made a cool $700k —-funded by PART—- to pitch the same line –that developers like to build along rail lines, thus in effect making the rail line self-supporting.
Guess which city HDR held up as a model for light rail development. Two guesses here, but if guessed Portland, you’d be right. Look how that worked out.
