Widespread adoption of diesel buses ultimately led to the abandonment of all streetcar systems on March 31, 1963. This ended nearly 90 years of streetcar service in the Los Angeles region.
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The real problem was that once cars appeared on the road, they could drive on streetcar tracks — and the streetcars could no longer operate efficiently. Once just 10 percent or so of people were driving, the tracks were so crowded that [the streetcars] weren't making their schedules, Norton says.
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in USA) is a type of urban rail transit. Consists of a rail vehicle, either alone or coupled in a multiple train unit, traveling on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
LISTEN: Unearthing London's transportation historyintroduced the horse-drawn trolleys in 1875. Two decades later, the system was converted to electric streetcars.
The new public agency Chicago Transit Authority took over the streetcar system in 1947 and began to integrate the surface lines with the city's elevated train network. In the 1950s, CTA decided to phase out streetcars in favor of motor and electric trolley buses, and Chicago's last streetcar ran in June 1958.