Back in 1970's for the Bicentennial, Eureka CA opted to "cutesify" old towne with brick intersections, deciduous trees, traffic island planters and meandering streets. Eureka once boasted a 14 mile streetcar system which could have been easily replicated in the downtowne with 3 or 4 Portuguese Birney type cars to link old towne with 4th and 5th Streets, the Carson Mansion and even the NWP depot and waterfront. It could have been a key anchor for tourism and any future Timber Heritage Museum and even NCRA tourist rail operation on Humboldt Bay. At the time the area was still flush with timber money. All of those street improvements have lived to become headaches and chances are local authority couldn't afford to support such a transportation antiquity these days anyway. The Eureka Inn operated one of those wooden trolleys in 1990's until it closed. Even today the faint cracks of the old streetcar line still show in the aging pavement of 2nd Street. San Pedro already has the investment. One would hope they would think long and hard about not bringing it back.
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