Definition of streetcar
: a vehicle on rails used primarily for transporting passengers and typically operating on city streets
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Fifty years before the influential Montgomery, Alabama, bus strike, Walker used her newspaper to organize a strike of Richmond's streetcar system in protest of its segregation.
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The city of Charlotte will close the Hawthorne Lane bridge over Independence Boulevard starting Monday morning for construction of the Gold Line streetcar.
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Streetcar and bus service will continue during construction.
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New Orleans police closed St. Charles Avenue between Poydras and Julia streets to all auto, pedestrian and streetcar traffic during the standoff.
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The streetcar’s segment on Westlake Avenue North was converted in 2016 from general traffic to a transit-only lane, where the busy 40 and C bus routes overlap and drain off short-distance users.
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Before that, Cincinnati Car Company, which built streetcars, housed them in a building there.
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Wrigley kept investing in advertisements and promotion, slathering billboards and streetcars with images that usually featured beautiful women.
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When the initial federal funding came through in 2012, the first streetcars were expected to be up and running in 2016.
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Illustration of streetcar
First Known Use of streetcar
1839
STREETCAR Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of streetcar for English Language Learners
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: a vehicle that travels on streets on metal tracks and that is used for carrying passengers
STREETCAR Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of streetcar for Students
: a vehicle for carrying passengers that runs on rails and operates mostly on city streets
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