Washington, DC streetcar system map, June 1942 Size:18x18 forerunner to the modern PATH

forerunner to the modern PATH subway

Portland was built around the streetcar

They lost the 1985 election to the Liberal Party

The projects were cancelled for lack of money

and where you can still see traces of it

Washington, DC streetcar system map, June 1942 Size:18x18 forerunner to the modern PATHThe Second World War, and the accompanying expansion of the federal bureaucracy, caused Washington DC to boom. DC's population doubled, as the influx of workers led to a housing shortage, and gasoline rationing meant that the District's streetcar system once again became the city's the primary means of transportation after decades of slow decline. There were even proposals put forth during the war to bury DC's busiest streetcar lines underground.