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Why some U.S.A. cityes didn't quyt streetcars?

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[quote user="nokia2110"] Which cityes preserved/extended streetcars into suburbs after W.W.2. ?[/quote]None.We have what we call "Light Rail" which are really nothing more than smaller trains run by overhead.The trolley as we under stand it in the USA are not revenue trains for modern times. They only exist as Muesum Artifacts and Exhibits.Now .. San Francisco has the Cable Car which is run by Cable underground, it is not a "Trolley" and no I dont think they take the Cable into the Suburbs.Here a Suburb could be 50 miles in any direction as the bird flies from a major city center.Everyone relies on Car. They prefer to drive themselves instead of using mass transit, in fact. The sterotype of mass transit is bad in some areas. If you were known to be the one taking the "Bus" you were very close to if not at the bottom of the social scale today.Little Rock's Trolley system crosses the Arkansas River into North Little Rock which is a seperate city with a very large population and essentially part of Little Rock.It is only good for tourists and workers too tired to walk around downtown, most of the time everyone flees the city by sundown and leave it to the night folks who have no interest in the trolley or anything else.In fact the Trolley had suffered thefts of copper groundings and other important wiring metals as these thieves risk elctrocution for a few dollars.
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