Posts Tagged ‘streetcar’
Zipcar Acquires The UK’s Streetcar, Car Sharing Across The Pond
‘zip’
courtesy of ‘NCinDC’
Zipcar, the world’s largest car sharing service, announced it has acquired Streetcar, the UK’s fastest growing car club. The acquisition will benefit both Streetcar and “Zipsters” (Zipcar members) by offering more vehicles, a greater variety of hybrid and other green cars, and more locations, and give members access to both [...]
Street Car Named DC(ire)
‘Peter Witt 1′
courtesy of ‘Bobolink’
Apparently back in the 60’s Washington, DC used to have a fairly cool little streetcar system running throughout certain parts of town. Since I hail from Toronto, which has a robust streetcar system, and even have great-grandparents who drove the streetcars, I’m a huge fan of them! Well it would appear [...]
DC Mythbusting: The DC Streetcar System
‘Washington, DC View east down F Street NW no date’
courtesy of ‘army.arch’
Welcome to another edition of DC Mythbusting. In order to avoid thinking about the terrible accident on Metro yesterday, I’m going to transport you back in time to when DC had another transit system. That’s right, our fair city was served by a streetcar [...]
Street Car at Washington Monument, 1938
From Shorpy, the historic photo blog: a DC street car near the Washington Monument in 1938. The view seems to be looking west from 15th St, and could almost be a modern view, aside from the street car, rails, and old-timey automobiles parked on the ramp — right up to the base of the Monument, [...]
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