Preliminary plans had called for a roughly 3-mile route that ran one way from Fourth through downtown and on Fifth to Summit Street and back to Burke.įrom there, it ran in both directions on First Street and Hawthorne Road, as far as the medical center.Ĭharles Hales, a vice president with HDR, said that the changes eliminate problem turns and improve the way the route flows. They would run with traffic and stop at red lights, just like buses. The streetcars would be guided by rails in the road and powered by electricity from small overhead lines. The new 2.6-mile route calls for streetcars to run in a figure-eight pattern downtown and in both directions on more of Fourth Street than originally conceived.
the company studying the feasibility of streetcars in the city, unveiled the revisions during a drop-in presentation yesterday afternoon at City Hall South. The route of a proposed streetcar system linking Piedmont Triad Research Park, downtown Winston-Salem and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has changed.ĭesigners with HDR Engineering Inc. Revised streetcar plan runs on more of Fourth StreetĮngineers now to work on details such as costs and the numbers of riders to be expected The report will be finished by October and work should start then on raising money to bring back the Sprague System Streetcars that once connected the city's grand resort hotel to downtown and the Victorian neighborhoods around the core. It looks like great news for Fourth Street and Burke Street bars, clubs and restaurants! This will run right by their doors and by the proposed baseball stadium site! I also like running the line down Main Street to the Wachovia Center! Keeping the cost of the first line (Green Line) to $40-50 million is also great news. This will connect Winston-Salem's two big skylines (CBD and Hawthorne Hill). Latest route through Downtown, West End and Hawthorne Hill / Ardmore.
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