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    Students Say “We Want the Downtown Streetcar!”

    Press Release wrote Students Say “We Want the Downtown Streetcar!”

    Creating Posters for Citizen Summit

    If the Graham School existed at its Indianola Avenue location back in the day…. way back in the day….. as in the 1920’s, many of its students might have arrived on one of the interurban streetcars of the Columbus, Delaware & Marion Railway. The right of way of the now long-gone interurban once ran parallel to Indianola Avenue and across from the entrance to the school.

    That historic factoid is not lost on this generation of high school students at Graham, a charter school within the Columbus Public School District. They get it that if the Columbus of their future is to be a better place, there need to be more options for getting around and a downtown streetcar is a good place to start.

    To literally illustrate that point, Graham students will join with 1000 Friends of Central Ohio, All Aboard Ohio and other grass roots advocates, faculty, engineers, urban planners, environmentalists and local architects to create posters supporting the Downtown Columbus Streetcar proposal. And it won’t end there, because the students plan to take part in the upcoming January 29th 2012 Citizen Summit at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to show their support with those posters.

    It’s a good story about young adults getting engaged in the issues affecting their future. Feel free to stop by and find out why.

    Saturday, January 26th – 9:00 A-M to 11:00 A-M

    Graham School – 3950 Indianola Avenue

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    Walker Evans is the co-founder of Columbus Underground, along with his wife and business partner Anne Evans. Walker has turned local media into a full time career over the past decade and serves on multiple boards and committees throughout the community.
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