Everyone likes a little friendly competition—in this case a Greater Greater Washington post does a side-by-side comparison of all the active streetcar systems in the United States.
A post by Matt Johnson compares the 19 streetcar systems in the United States by creating a graphic that lays all of them next to each other for an at-scale comparison.
Johnson also provides analysis for most of the lines, including why Philadelphia and New Orleans take the prize for having the largest systems (hint: legacy systems that never went fully out of commission).
Read the full story: See America's streetcar systems at the same scale
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