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Streetcars should be coming back; cities need them. They serve the journey to work, but not at the expense of the majority of trips that are far shorter: to
From the Detroit News. I'm not sure where outside of the US/North America this feature will be offered. Honda needs this badly; they intentionally make the
Actually, I believe Philadelphia is the streetcar capital of North America with some 60 miles of track, and pretty high ridership... Toronto is cleaner,
from Finanzas.com (via Google Language) http://www.finanzas.com/noticias/empresas/2008-08-05/31280_servicio- coches-carsharing-supera-2000.html Oddly, the
In reality these streetcars are being used for much the same reason that streetcars were first built at the turn of the (last) century - to open up new areas