streetcar
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Repetitive imagery of freeways, streetcar tracks, even horses seem to torture the main characters for feeling stuck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
“These days the streetcar is like a relic around here,” said Tetyana Yuriskulova, who has been driving trams since 1994.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Engineering student Mahmoud Bassam, 24, has visited Alexandria just to ride the streetcar "since our tram in Cairo was removed", he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
The streetcar rolled by them slowly so that the conductor and motorman could study Ignatius’ costume more closely.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
He notes that New York’s unexpectedly low turnout in the November 1872 presidential election may have reflected voters’ inability to catch horse-drawn omnibuses or streetcars to reach polling stations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Now, Egyptians young and old have flocked for farewell rides, before the streetcars come to a halt in April.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Scranton’s nickname, “Electric City,” stems from its being one of the first places in the U.S. to have electric streetcars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025
Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
The last streetcars were going by, taking the now distant sounds of the neighborhood with them.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
