Is one of America’s most car-centric cities ready to go back to the future? Fresno, whose early neighborhoods were shaped by streetcars, is ready to reboot its relationship with rail.
Caltrans officials greenlit a $700,000 grant this month for regional transportation planners to study whether a light rail system for the Fresno-Clovis metro makes sense.
The Fresno Council of Governments – the region’s transportation planning body – is exploring light rail in response to community feedback, according to Deputy Director Paul Herman, in an email to Fresnoland…