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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 ...
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.
The GCRTA was established on December 30, 1974, [7] and on September 5, 1975 assumed control of the Cleveland Transit System, which operated the heavy rail line from Windermere to Cleveland Hopkins Airport and the local bus systems, and Shaker Heights Rapid Transit (the descendant of a separate streetcar system formed by the Van Sweringen brothers to serve their Shaker Heights development ...
The Cleveland Traction Wars was a political conflict in Cleveland, Ohio, which surrounded the question of whether or not municipal ownership would be applied to the city's streetcar system. It was a key issue during the mayoralty of Tom L. Johnson from 1901 to 1909.
Another early electrified streetcar system in the United States was established in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by November 30, 1886; it was the first system to be run exclusively on electric power, giving Scranton the nickname "The Electric City". [12] [13] In 1887 an electric streetcar line opened between Omaha and South Omaha, Nebraska. [14]
A Union Park neighborhood project gets key zoning approval. Also, one ex-Des Moiner envisions what a streetcar system could look like today
To happen, streetcar expansion must be methodical, he added, and consider bus Metro bus service from the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority. SORTA has been expanding since Hamilton County ...
Cleveland Extension ... Pleasant to the Hamilton Square line of the Trenton streetcar system, ... 1893 and work was abandoned. Proposed to the Colorado state line, 17 ...