: a vehicle on rails used primarily for transporting passengers and typically operating on city streets
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In 2018, midtown voters agreed to increase sales and property taxes near the line to help fund the streetcar.—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025 Ramsey County abandoned planning for the Riverview Corridor streetcar a year ago.—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025 In its first eight years of operation, PTC spent $22.8 million to purchase 1,506 new streetcars, buses and trackless trolleys while also improving terminal and plant facilities.—Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025 The streetcar, the pigeons, the sound of the ambulance.—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for streetcar
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