Streetcars were pretty awful though. It should not be a conspiracy that they needed to be modernized and replaced with buses.
They were slow, had very low capacity numbers, costly to maintain, and were fairly dangerous.
I know people want to draw a direct comparison to modern light rail, but even today surface streetcars have proven to be expensive and inflexible larks for most cities that have developed them.
(I get that whether the automotive special interests should have be the ones to do it is its own issue).
They were slow, had very low capacity numbers, costly to maintain, and were fairly dangerous.
I know people want to draw a direct comparison to modern light rail, but even today surface streetcars have proven to be expensive and inflexible larks for most cities that have developed them.
(I get that whether the automotive special interests should have be the ones to do it is its own issue).