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July 25, 2004
Canal and Galvez, 1964
Canal and Galvez, 1964
The leaves have returned to the trees on Canal and the spring flowers are blooming. Other changes are taking place on Canal Street as well. The inside auto lanes on either side of the neutral ground have been widened in anticipation of bus service on the Canal Street line. The new concrete on the outbound side of the street is visible at right. There’s a bus just visible heading riverbound, most likely just leaving Canal Station to head uptown to the start of its route.
Two Perley Thomas cars have just passed each other. The one in the foreground is heading towards the river and the one in the background is heading towards the cemeteries. NOPSI still used two-man operation at this time; single-man operation did not start until the 1970s.
When NOPSI made the case to the city to discontinue the Canal line in the early 1960s, one of the reasons put forward was that the wooden electrical poles could be removed from the Canal Street neutral ground. Unlike the new line’s metal poles, the old Canal line relied on wooden electrical poles that towered high above the streetcars. The notion of getting rid of those unsightly poles was yet another nail in the Canal line’s coffin. (Photo courtesy of Earl Hampton).
Posted by Edward J. Branley at July 25, 2004 07:46 PM
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