Electric streetcar #1080 was a former Omnibus cable car. Converted to a standard 40-ft streetcar & painted green, it is shown serving the 22nd St. branch of the Mission St. line. Ca. 1901. (all Omnibus cable lines were converted to electricity or abandoned by MSRY ca. 1899).

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Gianmatteo Costanza PhillyCaralho Bike Mayor of the Lumpenproletariat كاحسخ humphrey ✨ SFECI ⚡🏗️🏙️🌆🌃🚃🚎 SF's transportation superpower is our trolley network, one of the few US cities to keep most overhead wire from the streetcar era around. trolleybuses are fully electric but need only a small battery, meaning less weight going up hills and less lithium mining compared to EVs

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We've been told that the FTAs Buy America provisions are the principal obstacle to expansion of SFMTA's trolley fleet. Looks like that problem can be overcome with a little bit of effort.

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JMA, California Labor Federation & our coalition will present at California Workforce Development Board to demand CA adopt recommendations to ensure workers + communities aren’t left behind in the transition to a green economy.

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The Powering America team of NECA’s Guarantee Electrical Company and IBEW Local 1 is working on the renovation and expansion of St. Louis Symphony’s 99 year-old Powell Hall in Missouri. #NECA #IBEW

Recent votes by the agency seemed to indicate that it was planning to retire and replace its entire stock of trolley buses, which are powered by overhead electrical wires also known as catenary lines, with all-electric plug-in-battery-powered alternatives.
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AI OUTSOURCING COULD STEAMROLL MIDDLE-CLASS WORKERS. Guest Column by Peter Finn of Teamsters @teamsters856.
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The best part of this amazing (22-story) union-build on #treasureisland ? Doing it will skilled craftworkers like IUPAT, of course!
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Electrifying the San Bernardino Line, Antelope Valley Line, and freight lines from Fullerton to Barstow will similarly provide good union jobs in the communities where many workers live. Let's make it happen! #ElectrifyMetrolink

Tl;DR: Enviros highlight the costs of air pollution in support, Class 1s deny catenary's existence, Short Lines claim they will be replaced by trucks, Building Trades oppose due to supposed job impacts. Many comments in favor of catenary, none in favor of hydrogen.

We were proud to join Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, SF Environment ♻️💚, SFMTA, and climate advocates for the announcement of the City's Curbside EV charging pilot program. There's a lot of work to do and nobody better than IBEW Local 6 and SFECA.org to do it.

There's an alternative form of zero-emissions freight that's existed for decades in the US and elsewhere: electric trains.
The infrastructure will cost money either way, why not put that investment into a mode that reduces traffic & road violence and helps transit?

This is excellent news. What's not so excellent is that it took nearly two months to restore full rail service between CA's 2 largest cities. We need an empowered, unified agency to take over that can move fast on vital infrastructure upgrades like moving tracks inland.

Now would be a great time to start planning to electrify the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line, which shares track with HSR from Burbank to Los Angeles. @MetroLosAngeles

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