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Monday, November 4, 2024

Vancouver's former Olympic Line streetcar

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-olympic-line-streetcar-future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Downtown_Historic_Railway#Olympic_Line

Fortunately, the Vancouver mentality of anti-streetcars and trams was never adopted in Seattle, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Melbourne, SF & N.O...

https://montecristomagazine.com/community/vancouvers-forgotten-streetcars

https://kumtuks.ca/streetcars-and-metro-vancouver/

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-week-in-history-1890-vancouver-gets-cutting-edge-with-an-electric-streetcar-and-light-system Unfortunatly, over the course of several generations, Vancouver keeps doing the wrong thing, especially with urban transportation planning. 

https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/streetcars-before-buses-british-columbia-electric-railway/

https://open.library.ubc.ca/viewer/bcbooks/1.0376526#p6z-8r0f: Greater Victoria could have been a prper big citties like Seattle or Sydney Australia. Greater Vancouver could have been on the scale of a Montreal by now. 

https://monova.ca/the-story-of-streetcar-153

https://westendvancouver.wordpress.com/historical-background/streetcars/

https://spacing.ca/vancouver/2013/06/18/vancouver-transit-the-era-of-street-cars1/

https://buzzer.translink.ca/2017/04/from-rails-to-rubber-a-look-back-at-the-regions-transition-from-streetcars-to-buses


https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=streetcars+and+trams

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