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The view out the side window of our streetcar by
Lee Circle is
a bit cloudy, but it is sharp enough to show another Perley Thomas unit
just ahead. In a twist peculiar to this
location alone in America (or so I believe), the outbound and inbound routes
of the same line
briefly share the same stretch of track. It only lasts for a short
distance. It has to do with the
logic of roundabouts and one way streets and it lasts for only one quadrant of
the traffic circle. Outbound cars have come from the CBD down
St. Charles Ave., and must travel to the left at the switch ahead to
regain St. Charles on the other side of the circle. Inbound cars, such as ours, will switch
right, along Howard Ave. briefly, before heading into downtown on
Carondelet St. It is a strange sequencing to contemplate -- but
it is an event very much befitting New Orleans. |
