Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Scott Perry (PA-10) introduced the No Desire for Streetcars Act, a bill prohibiting mass transit pet projects masquerading as legitimate public infrastructure.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, unless we’re talking about publicly-funded streetcars – expensive, ugly, and slow,” said Congressman Perry. “Academic, out-of-touch city planners are the only proponents of building roads to nowhere. Streetcars are the worst of the worst - dysfunctional and expensive at best, and funnel tax dollars to large coastal cities and out of the pockets of hardworking Americans.”
The No Desire for Streetcars Act ends funding for the D.C. streetcar boondoggle, and for any current or future copycat transit infrastructure projects. In Washington, the streetcar cost exceeded $200 million, took years to implement, and never collected a single fare.
Washington D.C. is phasing out the streetcar line by 2025, and replacing it with an electric bus after the abject failure of the decades-long project. Taxpayers can’t afford another failed mass transit project, and the No Desire for Streetcars Act eliminates the risk of one by codifying common sense.
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Congressman
Scott Perry
Serving Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District
