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  2. Streetcars in Cleveland - Wikipedia

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    The Cleveland Railway converted a few streetcar lines in the 1930s, but the onset of World War II stopped any further conversions. In 1942, the Cleveland Transit System took over the operation of all streetcar, bus and trackless trolley lines from the Cleveland Railway. Following the war, CTS undertook a program of replacing all existing ...

  3. List of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority yards

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    Many of these facilities are former streetcar carhouses that were gradually converted to trackless trolley and bus use, although some like Southampton (built 2004) are of recent construction. Of the former streetcar carhouses, only Arborway and Watertown were Green Line yards during part of the MBTA era. Everett was an Orange Line yard until 1975.

  4. List of streetcar systems in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of past and present streetcar (tram), interurban, and light rail systems in the United States. System here refers to all streetcar infrastructure and rolling stock in a given metropolitan area. In many U.S. cities, the streetcar system was operated by a succession of private companies; this is not a list of streetcar operating ...

  5. Boston-area streetcar lines - Wikipedia

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    Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...

  6. Streetcar strikes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1892 Indianapolis streetcar strike; 1895, Brooklyn, New York City, the first in which Farley was involved; 1896, Milwaukee [8] 1899, Cleveland, Ohio; 1900, St. Louis, where the dynamiting of streetcars was a "nightly occurrence" [9] 1903, Los Angeles; 1907, San Francisco, California, with 31 killed and an estimated 1000 people injured; 1908 ...

  7. Cleveland Railway (Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    PCC streetcar 4201 in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1950s - later sold to Toronto Transportation Commission and re-classed as TTC A11 car 4626. The Cleveland Railway Company was the public transit operator in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1910 to 1942.

  8. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in Ohio, with a ridership of 22,431,500, or about 78,200 per weekday as of ...

  9. History of the MBTA - Wikipedia

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    The board report showed that the MBTA's operating expenses and debt service were growing nearly three times the rate of revenue growth—being projected to grow from a projected $170 million in fiscal year 2016 to a projected $427 million by fiscal year 2020 if left unaddressed—and that operator absences accounted for 69 percent of the 34,347 ...