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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

longship

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1. I remember street cars in Detroit.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 07:29 PM

Apr 2013

And trolley buses running on tires but powered by overhead wires. It was early fifties. Livernois had street cars. Grand River Avenue had trolley buses. They were all over the city and provided Detroiters a convenient and inexpensive way to get downtown... Or to Briggs Stadium to see the Tigers play.

Then, they tore up the rails, and got rid of the overhead wires.

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Detroit: M1 Rail project gets final OK from federal government [View all] marmar Apr 2013 OP

I remember street cars in Detroit. longship Apr 2013 #1

can anybody there afford to ride it? nt msongs Apr 2013 #2

You watch too much TV. marmar Apr 2013 #3