From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 1:26:04 AM UTC-4, Glen Labah wrote:   
      
   >>Sure, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc. all retained small   
   >>remnants, but Toronto is the only city in North America to keep vast   
   >>segments intact.   
      
   >Philadelphia had a massive streetcar system, but the transit company was   
   >purchased by a unit of General Motors (and other automotive companies)   
   >in the 1950s. GM immediately sold the system 1,000 buses to replace the   
   >streetcars.  Only a fragment remained.  According to long standing   
   >company managers and Phila city officials of the time, the GM unit   
   >looted the transit system's treasury, leaving it in lousy shape.   
      
   >Had GM not purchased the system, the core high volume streetcar routes   
   >would've remained in service.  Overall, service quality would've been   
   >better.   
      
   You need to take your 20-20 hindsight to the opthalmologist stat,   
   hancock. Chicago had a significantly larger streetcar system, which got   
   municipalized during WWII, entirely untouched by NCL. How many routes   
   remain?   
      
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