>>1946218It’s common in the U.S. At one time every city and town had done some kind of trolley, then almost all of them were junked, but in recent years there’s been efforts to rebuild a small fraction of them. Most of these systems are a joke, a few miles of track that serve little practical purpose other than to “revive downtown” , with low ridership and infrequent service. Detroit is a perfect example, with one of the best streetcar systems in the U.S. at one time plus regional electric interurbans, all scrapped by 1956. Now there’s the QLine on Woodward Avenue, a few miles of track and a handful of streetcars. The other night the waifu and I enter to go to a jazz festival downtown, so we parked along the line and waited for a train. After half an hour waiting, getting sparechanged by hobos, we gave up,
