if you “own” a piece of land in the middle of the planned rail route, the Government will just kick you out.
That’s how the interstate system and urban highways were built. But people being displaced were mostly black and/or poor and/or immigrants, so it wasn’t seen as a bad thing at the time.
The first public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram
So if your city shut down its streetcars in 1951, like mine did, then what you said is true. If you city had streetcars in 1953 or beyond, its not. Not to be too pedantic about it.
My point is that is less than 1 human lifespan. There are people that rode the streetcars in my city when they were kids that still live here. Its not ancient history, its living memory.
Oil companies literally killed electric trolleys wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day.
In most cities, this happens around the 1950s. So not that long ago, if you think about it.
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