What is a Streetcar?
Platonic thought experiment meets transportation
Last month I offered this question/thought experiment on Twitter:
What do you think of a streetcar as being conceptually: a train that rides on the street, a bus that uses rails, or something else?
I like questions like this. I thought about similar questions here—seeing hugely spread-out street grids in suburban road networks—and here, looking at the gradual evolution of the strip mall out of the traditional urban block.