London Breed

If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it's Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It's where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.

American Politician

Frank Deford

I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.

American Writer

Chevy Chase

Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.

American Comedian

Harry Houdini

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Hungarian Entertainer

Maureen Forrester

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Canadian Musician

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

Turkish Politician

Vivien Leigh

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

English Actress

Bob Dole

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Nick Woodman

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

American Businessman

Anthony Foxx

Streetcars operate in urban areas, providing local public transportation similar to buses.

Urban Transit

Unlike buses, streetcars follow a fixed route along tracks laid on the streets.

Fixed Route

Streetcars are often associated with a sense of history and nostalgia in certain cities.

Historic Charm

 buildings you can build stadiums you can have wetlands or forests you can build big avenues or streets or you could have streetcar lines all the kinds of things that we think about all the sort of options we have in the city what's also true about cities is they have different lifestyles so there's a life style selector who's going to live in your

A radical revisioning of...

 We're building a downtown streetcar to try and help the walkability formula for people who choose to live in the inner city and help us create the density there. We're building senior health and wellness centers throughout the community. We put some investments on the river that had originally been invested upon

How an obese town lost a...

 in Berlin's western districts. While East Germans were officially banned from leaving the country, in Berlin, it was simply a matter of walking, or riding a subway, streetcar or bus, to the Western half, then traveling on to West Germany or beyond.

The rise and fall of the...

 at a few hundred yards from a streetcar i found myself into the jungle with hordes of