The City that Desired a Streetcar The Oklahoma City Streetcar is a 5.6-mile track that will take riders to MidTown, Downtown Business District, and Bricktown. The OKC Streetcar will have eighteen platforms for passengers to access the streetcar and will provide scheduled stops every 12-16 minutes. The OKC Streetcar is a MAPS 3 project that is in production and was voted on in 2009. The Oklahoma City Streetcar will provide revenue for the city, an eco-friendly source of transportation, and a safety conscious way to travel throughout the downtown area of Oklahoma City. First, the city budgeted $131 million dollars for the OKC Streetcar when the people of this great city voted for a streetcar line through the MAPS 3 campaign. Construction is currently
On September 10, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt help transferred a $20 million from Emergency Relief Act funds to the department of interior for construction of Friant Dam. The following year coming, he signed the act. Projected cost of the Friant Dam and Reservoir came in at $14 million, the Friant-Kern Canal came in at $26 million, and the Madera Canal was $3 million. The dam was built by the United State Bureau of Reclamation and the Faint dam was completed in 1942.
There is one reason Chicago is as big as it is today and that is the fact that it is the largest rail city in the world. The railroad made Chicago what it is today, and although the canal was very important in the history of Chicago the railroads importance out weighs it by far. The canal was important because it was the vision of the first settlers of Chicago to have an all water trade route that would go through Chicago. What those first explorers saw was a way to make a canal so that they could transport goods from the St Lawrence River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico with less cost and with more efficiency. The canal was the reason Chicago was settled in the first place if not for it there might very well not be a city called Chicago. You could argue that the canal was the most important thing in Chicago's history but I think the railroads were much more important. The railroads enabled Chicago to become one of the biggest cities in the world by bringing in different business and all types of goods. Chicago is a very key location to have a railroad-shipping hub. This is because it is centrally located in the United States so goods can be shipped in almost any direction and received in a shorter amount of time. William Butler Ogden was the one who pushed for Chicago to adopt a large rail system and he should be known as the one who made this city boom. St. Louis or another centrally located city could have very well adopted the rail system and they would have reaped all the benefits.
...udget spending was 3.3 million. With these large budget avalabile to Government and Policy makers it is clear that they are not allocating budget wisely and are in desperate need of reoganization, to achieve the goal of attaining greater equality and safer streets with law-abiding citizens.
Scene Analysis of Scene Seven of A Streetcar Named Desire As a connection to Stanley’s questioning Blanche about her affair in the “Hotel Flamingo” in Scene Five, Scene Seven starts with his revelation of Blanche’s past life in Laurel. Having “thoroughly checked on [the] stories” (187) about what Blanche has done there, Stanley is confident to nail the “pack of lies” (186) that are used so skilfully to deceive Stella and Mitch – she has never been kissed by a fellow and she quits her job because of her poor nerves. The competition between the two extreme, dominating powers of Blanche and Stanley is one of the main concerns in the development of the play. In Scene Seven, Tennessee Williams, the playwright of the play, delicately renders the shift of dominating power from Blanche to Stanley through the Stella’s response about the “stories”. At first, Stella reacts strongly to the stories about Blanche’s past life, stating them as “contemptible lies” (187); however, her strong defence of Blanche is gradually defeated by Stanley’s powerful statements and reliable evi...
The Texas Department of Transportation has, for Fiscal Year 2006, a budget of $7,732,365,130.00.1 This sounds like a substantial sum, seeing as how the previous year’s budget was almost $2 billion dollars less. It is not a substantial sum, however; or, at least, not substantial enough.
she was told "to take a streetcar named Desire, and then to transfer to one
So a vote against the Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline would save Kentuckians thousands of dollars in crops and water replacement, but it may also cost us some limited jobs and money but we don’t need 30 pieces of silver. We need to stop the pipeline from ever starting up again and funnel the money that would go into this waste of time into something that actually need the money and not something that has too much money already. Put the money into the Kentucky economy or into the Kentucky job markets, or better yet into education so all of Kentucky can live better off.
Resiliency is one concept that has never been the human races forte. Many things that happen in our current day and age require a great deal of perseverance and resiliency. People often will give in to the problems in their lives and learn to accept them, instead of persevering through them and working out the issues. The fact of the matter is, if you learn to persevere through problems, your life will be a lot more happy and pleasant to live. In Tennessee Williams’ play, “ A Streetcar Named Desire” suggests that you cannot give up on issues; you must be resilient to those issues and persevere to be happy.
The ideology of male dominance has existed since the beginning of mankind. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, it is especially apparent that Stanley, who is a working class man, feels the need to assert and reassert this principle of power constantly. Williams makes clear, through the character of Stanley, that the yearning for others’ recognition of their power and capability is the motive behind men’s masculine inclinations.
Both William Shakespeare 's Othello and Tennessee William 's A Streetcar Named Desire are both theatre productions. Othello was written in 1603 and contains themes of betrayal and loyalty, whilst Streetcar was written in 1947 and both contain themes of social standing. Streetcar was intended to be received by an educated adult audience, whereas Othello was intended to be watched by a mixture of educated and uneducated adults. Both pieces possess a serious narrative tone, and were intended to entertain an audience whilst presenting the author 's themes and ideas.
In conclusion, Gretchen is a hero in many ways in the book, Until They Bring the Streetcars Back. Gretchen is a girl who isn't treated well, but she was always worried and warm hearted towards Cal and to those around her. In addition, she showed courage by telling Cal about her father’s abuse, and that was a risk she took at a cost no matter what happened. Finally, she was a tenacious person who kept on going despite the challenges that came in her way. Just like most characters in the book Gretchen did not save lives, but she did teach us something. She taught us that no matter how complicating things might get we should know that things will change. Although Gretchen was an outcast in school and lacked communication, she was smart in her
The plan is broken down which provide the final estimate of revenues from 2014 to 2018. The fare revenue comes from the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, MTA Bus Company, New York City Transit, bridges and tunnel and Staten Island Railway. The total fare and toll revenue for 2014 is $7,285.322, 2015 is $7,590.171, 2016 is $7,743.856, estimate for 2017 may be $7,810.013, and 2018 may be $7,871.872. The total MTA Agency Ridership and Traffic estimate for 2014 is 2,713.035. The adopted budget for 2015 is 2,753.990, 2016 is 2,790.535, 2017 is 2,812.773, and 2018 is 2,835.124. MNR baseline utilization reflects East-of-Hudson service
From the beginning, the three main characters of Streetcar are in a state of tension.
This money was used for various parts of the construction. This included houses for the workers in Boulder City. These houses were 7.6 miles away from what was once the construction site of the dam. The money was also used for the materials used in the dam. These included 5 million barrels of cement, 45 million pounds of steel, 6.6 million tons of concrete, 5 20 ton cables (about 200,000 pounds), dynamite, and 600 miles of pipe. If the Hoover Dam were built today with all of these materials, it would cost about 860 million
Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, he was the second of the Williams’ three children. By his own candid accounts, he described his family situation as being troubled, to put it lightly. His parent’s marriage was ordinarily tense, most likely as a result of his father’s alcoholism, physical intimidation and neglect. Thomas’s kindred troubles did not end with his parent’s unpleasantness, his beloved older sister, Rose, was institutionalized as a young woman and remained in care for the reminder of her life. He, himself suffered a mental breakdown, following his recuperation he moved to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee, this move invigorated his lifestyle and provided him with a new source of inspiration.