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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Squaredeal

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2. I was very young in NYC in the 50's.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jun 12, 2024, 06:40 PM

Jun 2024

I would often ask my New Yorker parents to show me a streetcar. They couldn’t.
Then one day while traveling through the city in my parent’s car, my father pointed out multiple tall stacks of flattened trolleys sitting inside a junk yard. I was so disappointed.

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Iconic green and cream SEPTA trolleys dating back to the 1940s making their return [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP

Wonderful! I would love to see them back on Quakerfriend Jun 2024 #1

I was very young in NYC in the 50's. Squaredeal Jun 2024 #2

Love the art deco look. SarahD Jun 2024 #3

ding . ding . ding ding. now what was that song about the trolley car? AllaN01Bear Jun 2024 #4