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I , like you, grew up in the 50's and 60's I spent a lot of time in Boston and St. Louis. I was saddened on 5/21/66 when the last car ran. At the time, it was inevitable. National City Lines had been in place there from 1940 until 1963 when the public agency took over. IF not for the war the cars would have gone 5 years earlier. When expenses were properly allocated, over the long haul they really were cheaper than buses but no one ever said that politics is rational and it took politics for General Motors to pay off local government officials to buy the lines and to have them romoved and all the scrap disappearing. Glad to see the full circle coming around again but the streetcar will never be fully in charge of urban transit again. No one is going to ever again want to foot the bill for the infrastructure. In the short run, buses are cheaper to get started cause the road is already there.
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