Editing New Orleans (section)

===Public transportation===
Hurricane Katrina devastated transit service in 2005. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) was quicker to restore the streetcars to service, while bus service had only been restored to 35% of pre-Katrina levels as recently as the end of 2013. During the same period, streetcars arrived at an average of once every seventeen minutes, compared to bus frequencies of once every thirty-eight minutes. The same priority was demonstrated in RTA's spending, increasing the proportion of its budget devoted to streetcars to more than three times compared to its pre-Katrina budget.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jaffe, Eric |title=A Troubling Review of Public Transit in New Orleans Since Katrina |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=August 17, 2015 |access-date=May 19, 2018 |publisher=City Lab |url=https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/08/a-scathing-review-of-public-transit-in-new-orleans-since-katrina/401423/ |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520054751/https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/08/a-scathing-review-of-public-transit-in-new-orleans-since-katrina/401423/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Through the end of 2017, counting both streetcar and bus trips, only 51% of service had been restored to pre-Katrina levels.<ref name=ridenola>{{cite news |title=The State of Transit 2017: Creating our Transit Future |publisher=Ride New Orleans}}</ref>

In 2017, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority began operation on the extension of the Rampart{{endash}}St. Claude streetcar line. Another change to transit service that year was the re-routing of the 15 Freret and 28 Martin Luther King bus routes to Canal Street. These increased the number of jobs accessible by a thirty-minute walk or transit ride: from 83,722 in 2016 to 89,216 in 2017. This resulted in a regional increase in such job access by more than a full percentage point.<ref name=ridenola/>

====Streetcars====
[[File:Canal St NOLA CBD Sept 2009 St Charles Astor Redcar.JPG|alt=|thumb|A New Orleans [[Streetcars in New Orleans|streetcar]] traveling down Canal Street]]
[[File:New Orlean Streetcars.svg|thumb|Streetcar network]]

{{Main|Streetcars in New Orleans}}
New Orleans has four active [[Tram|streetcar lines]]:
* The [[St. Charles Streetcar Line]] is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2018/11/st-charles-avenues-streetcar/ |title=St. Charles Avenue's Streetcar {{!}} Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business |last=Terrell |first=Ellen |date=November 28, 2018 |website=blogs.loc.gov |access-date=November 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113194151/https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2018/11/st-charles-avenues-streetcar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The line first operated as local rail service in 1835 between Carrollton and downtown New Orleans. Operated by the Carrollton & New Orleans R.R. Co., the locomotives were then powered by steam engines, and a one-way fare cost 25 cents.<ref>{{cite book |title=Streetcars of New Orleans |author=Hennick, Louis C. and Elbridge Harper Charlton |year=2005 |publisher=Jackson Square Press |page=14 |location=Gretna, LA |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2Zu8CSRFZAC |isbn=978-1455612598 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110085309/https://books.google.com/books?id=X2Zu8CSRFZAC |url-status=live }}</ref> Each car is a historic landmark. It runs from Canal Street to the other end of St. Charles Avenue, then turns right into South Carrollton Avenue to its terminal at Carrollton and Claiborne.
* The [[Riverfront Streetcar Line]] runs parallel to the river from Esplanade Street through the French Quarter to Canal Street to the Convention Center above Julia Street in the Arts District.
* The [[Canal Streetcar Line]] uses the Riverfront line tracks from the intersection of Canal Street and Poydras Street, down Canal Street, then branches off and ends at the cemeteries at City Park Avenue, with a spur running from the intersection of Canal and Carrollton Avenue to the entrance of City Park at Esplanade, near the entrance to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
* The [[Rampart–Loyola Streetcar Line]] opened on January 28, 2013, as the ''Loyola-UPT Streetcar Line'' running along Loyola Avenue from [[New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal]] to Canal Street, then continuing along Canal Street to the river, and on weekends on the Riverfront line tracks to French Market. The French Quarter Rail Expansion extended the line from the Loyola Avenue/Canal Street intersection along Rampart Street and St. Claude Avenue to Elysian Fields Avenue. It no longer runs along Canal Street to the river, or on weekends on the Riverfront line tracks to French Market.

The city's streetcars were featured in the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. The streetcar line to Desire Street became a bus line in 1948.

====Buses====
[[Public transport]]ation is operated by the [[New Orleans Regional Transit Authority]] ("RTA"). Many [[bus]] routes connect the city and suburban areas. The RTA lost 200+ buses in the flood. Some of the replacement buses operate on [[biodiesel]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Powell |first1=Allen |title=New Jefferson Transit buses run on biodiesel |url=https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_9eef3085-9930-5d71-b28f-752dcfc47696.html |access-date=March 2, 2022 |work=The Times-Picayune |date=June 23, 2010 |language=en |archive-date=March 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302091933/https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_9eef3085-9930-5d71-b28f-752dcfc47696.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Jefferson Parish, Louisiana|Jefferson Parish]] Department of Transit Administration<ref>[http://www.jeffparish.net/index.cfm?DocID=1196 Department of Transit Administration.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220045454/http://www.jeffparish.net/index.cfm?DocID=1196 |date=February 20, 2012 }} The Parish of Jefferson. Retrieved November 12, 2007.</ref> operates Jefferson Transit, which provides service between the city and its suburbs.<ref>[http://www.jeffersontransit.org/ Jefferson Transit] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930174935/http://www.jeffersontransit.org/ |date=September 30, 2007 }}.</ref>

====Ferries====
[[File:AlgiersFerry TJefferson arriving3 bright.jpg|thumb|Ferries connecting New Orleans with [[Algiers, New Orleans|Algiers]] (left) and Gretna (right)]]
New Orleans has had continuous ferry service since 1827,<ref>{{cite web |title=History of New Orleans' Ferries |publisher=Friends of the Ferry |access-date=May 19, 2018 |url=http://friendsoftheferry.org/ferry-history.html |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520054801/http://friendsoftheferry.org/ferry-history.html |url-status=live }}</ref> operating three routes as of 2017. The [[Canal Street Ferry]] (or Algiers Ferry) connects downtown New Orleans at the foot of [[Canal Street, New Orleans|Canal Street]] with the [[National Historic Landmark District]] of [[Algiers Point]] across the Mississippi ("West Bank" in local parlance). It services passenger vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians. This same terminal also serves the Canal Street/Gretna Ferry, connecting [[Gretna, Louisiana]] for pedestrians and bicyclists only. A third auto/bicycle/pedestrian connects [[Chalmette, Louisiana]] and Lower Algiers.<ref name=friendsoftheferry.org>{{cite web |title=Friends of the Ferry |url=http://www.friendsoftheferry.org/ |access-date=July 2, 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714131434/http://www.friendsoftheferry.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>