Streetcar ????? along North Charles Street ????

The newspapers headlines shouted "Baltimore is an old city  .. get over it!!!!!".  The issue, this time, being the rupture of a sixty inch water main pipe on North Charles Street.  When will it be repaired?  No way to know as it depends on what they run into.  What about the businesses along the corridor, complete lack of business and complete lack of transportation going through the area unless you can move up another main street.  But what happens when the public transportation on that street is a streetcar?  What happens to your ability to go to work?  What happens to your getting to school?  The streetcar could be out of service for weeks and most likely will.  The people who depend on this mode of transportation are stuck without public transportation.  If the bus routes continue, then they can easily navigate around the obstruction and get you to your final destination without having to revert to automobiles.  So why even consider building a streetcar?  If you are dissatisfied with the existing bus routes have them improved by investing a nominal amount of money to increase the service so that the buses are not so packed and come more frequently.  It makes no sense to destroy a plan that exists and works to put in a plan that is bound to fail.