Louisiana, New Orleans - RTA outage stops streetcars

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01-18-2000

Louisiana: New Orleans -- The famous streetcars along St. Charles Avenue stopped running for almost 12 hours Sunday because of a mysterious problem that kept them stalled on the tracks. Entergy Corp. crews installed a temporary cable to get them moving again. Entergy spokeswoman Chanel LaGarde said the outage was caused by the Regional Transit Authority's system.

Source: USA Today, ACROSS THE USA - News from every state

http://usatoday.elibrary.com/s/usatoday/getdoc.cgi?id=154789456x127y45367w0&OIDS=0Q002D018&Form=RL&pubname=USA_Today&puburl=http~C~~S~~S~www.usatoday.com&querydocid=174869@library_q&dtype=0~0&dinst=0

-- Lee Maloney (leemaloney@hotmail.com), January 26, 2000


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