There are currently four operating streetcar lines in New Orleans: The St. Charles Avenue Line, the Riverfront Line, the Canal Street Line, and the Loyola Avenue Line. The St. Charles Avenue Line is the only one that has operated continuously throughout New Orleans's streetcar history (though service was interrupted after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and resumed only in part in December 2006). All other lines were replaced by bus service from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. After Katrina, the streetcars on Canal Street could not be saved; but preservationists persuaded the city government to protect the St. Charles Avenue Line by granting it historic landmark status.
© Haydn Thompson 2017