The last line of Memphis' original streetcar network closed on June 15, 1947.
Mexico City once had an extensive streetcar network.
The city is currently in the process of expanding a modern streetcar network.
Spreckels builds a new power generating plant to operating the expanding streetcar network.
Full deployment across the streetcar network is expected by 2018.
Although it was an efficient system for the city's 220,000 inhabitants, by the 1930s the streetcar network had stopped expanding.
Other sources indicate the replacement of Detroit's large electric streetcar network with buses & highways was much more controversial.
The city's streetcar network made its downtown more accessible to the city.
Frankfurt will even throw in its above-ground streetcar network.
The city of Ottawa abandoned its own streetcar network in 1959.