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a city's electric conscience, gliding while everyone else fights for parking.
means a passenger vehicle that runs on rails along city streets, usually powered by electricity from overhead wires.
from From an old Scots and northern English word "tram," meaning a beam or shaft, and later the wooden or iron rails of a cart-track in coal mines. It's likely related to a Low German or Middle Dutch word for a beam or barrow-handle. So before it carried commuters above ground, "tram" named the very rails the coal carts rumbled along underground — the road, in a sense, named the vehicle that rode it.
- oldest survivor
- Lisbon's wooden trams have run since 1873
- steel addiction
- locked to rails, it never swerves around obstacles
- polite power
- runs on overhead wires, emits nothing at street level
- comeback kid
- ripped out worldwide mid-century, now rebuilt everywhere
- name origin
- from old word for beam or wheel track
melbourne tram network — 125 km of operational tram lines, world's largest by length
lisbon tram 28 — historic yellow tram through steep hills of alfama district, operating since 1873
hong kong peak tram — funicular railway opened 1888, climbs 373 meters in 8 minutes
san francisco f line — heritage streetcar restored in 1995, runs on market street