Does your cunt have cool streetcars?
Los Angeles is rebuilding its streetcar system. I’m excited, hope it spreads to other cities.
Does your cunt have cool streetcars?
Robert Wilson
Jose Richardson
bump
Jeremiah Ramirez
why is it a "streetcar"? Aren't actual cars on the streets too?
Anthony Hall
Tramway
Dylan Richardson
I know I'm just asking how this name makes sense
Zachary Hughes
Jose Evans
Most of North America got rid of their street railways because the auto industry lobbied against them so they could produce buses. Now they are rebuilding them because buses are no longer cheaper to run and maintain due to oil prices. Toronto is the only major NA city that never got rid of them.
Trains are made up of cars, these are just trains that drive on the street, thus streetcars.
Elijah Morgan
We have in Sao Paulo like those of Canada and in Santos city on rails
Bentley Smith
Between 1895 and 1929, almost every major city in the United States suffered at least one streetcar strike. Sometimes lasting only a few days, more often these strikes were "marked by almost continuous and often spectacular violent conflict,"[18] at times amounting to prolonged riots and civil insurrection.
Streetcar strikes rank among the deadliest armed conflicts in American labor union history. Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor called the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 "the fiercest struggle ever waged by the organized toilers"[19] up to that point, with a total casualty count of 14 dead and about 200 wounded. The San Francisco Streetcar Strike of 1907 saw 30 killed and about 1000 injured.[18] Many of the casualties were passengers and innocent bystanders.
James Richardson
>Americans unironically call trams "Streetcars".
What the fuck
Noah Cox
Aye, we have them in Quito, although they only have wheels, no tracks. The actual metro is being built and is expected to be finished somewhat soon.
Adrian Gonzalez
The term car doesn't just refer to an auto mobile especially on the past
Mason Gray
No. Actually the municipality once bought a lot of houses because they wanted to resurrect a tramline but instead sold the houses again for cheap to city officials
Justin Barnes
>that turn radius
colonial towns are comfy but they have been showing their age lately.
Until 2005 there were almost no cars in my town but now it's traffic jams every sunday
Kayden Evans
why aren't double decker trams (or whatever the proper name is) more common?
Parker Collins
Overhead powerlines
Nicholas Mitchell
Helsinki have excellent and extensive tram network. Its quite slow desu, but works well for the city of size of Helsinki
Jeremiah Gomez
I dunno but that would be based.
You'd have to do it in a high-density area though. Most American cities don't get that density.
However I like that they're doing this in Los Angeles, because transit encourages cities to densify a bit and not be so car-dependent.
Charles Ward
They exist, Hong Kong has a lot. The lines need to be placed higher though which can limit routes and fleet compatibility.
Jose Evans
It is called a TRAM
We dont have any here.
Carson Barnes
WTF, do we have a low-resolution day today?
Benjamin Price
Phone-poster master race
Daniel Nguyen
Some cities still have them but since gas/electric hybrid powered buses don't pollute that much we mainly switched to those.
Kayden Gonzalez
Go play ur videogames pc loser
Nicholas Edwards
The tram here in Manchester is pretty sweet
Liam King
The HK trams are old as shit though and very uncomfortable. You'd think a place like HK would be able to afford higher quality.
Ryder White
They're building ones in my city but because religious people cried it was cut from 6/7 workdays to 4/5 workdays a week and because of that and how long building shit takes here it'll take at least another 3-4 years and there only for the first two stations I think...
James Hernandez
was absolutely fucking retarded, that and dismantling a lot of rail lines
yes consumers did like cars a lot but urban planners should've been more protective and long term thinking
Jayden Thomas
It happened everywhere though. I mean the Louvre in Paris used to be a parking lot
Leo Reyes
*click clack* worlds biggest tram network comin on in
Angel Turner
the middle class in Europe didn't have quite the same exodus and abandonment of urban centers though
we almost completely rejected urban living here
Nicholas Hall
>calling tram a car
>a street car, no less
>as in, no other car can go on the street
>but lets also not forget that A TRAM IS NOT A FUCKING CAR
the eternal mutt must be stopped
the line got crossed right here
Parker Rodriguez
How big is the biggest? How long? Here is 72km in 10 tramlines
Julian Hernandez
Do you know what a car means?
Cameron Howard
Yep it's crazy. Although that is only 1 section of the city, and traffic jams aren't even that bad since the legions of traffic conductors keep things going. Most of the route actually has the buses in their own exclusive lane.
Brody Diaz
when they will finish in 2021 all stations will be operative.
Connor Campbell
It'll be delayed 100% and been over a year in the working not including planning even
Daniel Wilson
24 lines 250km
Eli Price
streetcars existed before cars, so you should in fact be pissed we call automobiles cars and not the other way around.