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Welcome to the NORTA.
We provide bus and streetcar services to the New Orleans community.
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St. Charles Streetcar Line Update
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Locals and tourists alike can now enjoy a wonderful ride down the entire length of New Orleans’ celebrated St. Charles Avenue, and through the neighborhoods of South Carrollton to Claiborne Avenue. Streetcar service on the final section of the traditional route, along South Carrollton Avenue, resumed on June 22, 2008. The St.Charles Streetcar is a 13 mile route.
Experience the sights and sounds of the historic St. Charles Streetcar!! The St. Charles streetcar delights passengers with breathtaking views of uptown New Orleans as it passes Tulane and Loyola Universities, Audubon Park and impressive mansions.
Streetcar service runs between Canal Street and Carrollton and Claiborne Avenues seven days a week. Cars operate every 10 minutes on weekdays and every 15 minutes on weekends during daytime hours. See the webpage for evening hours. Carondelet at the intersection of Canal Street is the main boarding point of the St. Charles streetcar. The regular fare of $1.25 will be charged at this stop or at any point along the line. Transfers are available during boarding for a quarter. Streetcar stops are every two blocks. When passengers get to the end of the line at South Carrollton Avenue to South Claiborne Avenue, they must deboard and pay an additional fare of $1.25 to return to St. Charles Avenue for the ride back to the Central Business District. If passengers deboard at any stop along the line, an additional fare of $1.25 will be charged to reboard. Transfers are not good for a return trip on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar. Transfers are valid for other streetcar and connecting bus lines, not for the return trip. One-day and three day VisiTour passes are available for five dollars and twelve dollars, respectively. With your VisiTour pass, you may board RTA buses and streetcars as often as you like. No need to worry about exact fare -- just show your validated VisiTour Pass to the operator. VisiTour Passes are available from these vendors.
RTA officials urge motorists and pedestrians to be alert of the streetcars. RTA is reminding everyone to watch for streetcars on the line. For example, before turning left at any corner on St. Charles Avenue, look both ways for oncoming streetcars. Joggers should also be cognizant that the streetcars will once again be traveling down the neutral ground. Remember the streetcars always have the right of way.
St. Charles Perley Thomas cars remain in use on the Riverfront and Canal streetcar lines. The first restored candy-apple red Canal streetcar should return to Canal Street as early as October 2008, with nine completed by the end of this year. The remaining 22 red streetcars should be back in service by the end of 2009, with the Riverfront cars being the last seven cars completed.
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