Getting out of town over MLK, Jr. Weekend and heading down to the West Texas town of El Paso (cue Marty Robbins). My first visit of substance and I’m really looking forward to riding this:

That’s an El Paso Streetcar. Whenever I drive someplace, I’m a park the car and forget it kinda person. Bringing the bicycle, of course, to El Paso and will walk plenty of places there, but our neighbor to the south also has these streetcars, and I naturally am staying about two blocks from a streetcar stop.

I’ve heard quite a bit about El Paso’s streetcar system since it started up in 2018, and its date of origin is so aligned with our Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) that it’s hard not to compare, contrast, and ponder what could have been.

About the only complaints concerning the streetcar seem to be that it’s too slow for commuting use, so I’ll be comparing, contrasting, and pondering quite a bit while seeing the the West Texas town of El Paso from a streetcar window. Most likely pondering things like, “well, is ART really used by commuters?”