Definition of streetcar
:a vehicle on rails used primarily for transporting passengers and typically operating on city streets
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Bus transfers can also be purchased when passes are bought on the streetcars.
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Most people were in a rush to get home to supper and briefly glanced out the streetcar windows to look at the sky then returned to their business.
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In a semicircle behind the figure are five granite pillars, fashioned like upturned streetcars; while in front, a stainless-steel ballot box rests on a broad table.
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City leaders now want to build a streetcar across it.
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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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On other days, the burgeoning downtown population could comfortably access the park by foot, bike and a new streetcar system.
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The hotel opens this summer inside the former downtown New Orleans headquarters of the city's iconic utility and streetcar operator.
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First Known Use of streetcar
1839
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