Photo: Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue, 2007

The Electric Street Car (Lisbon, Portugal)

Within a few of years of its initial introduction in 1888, most major cities in North America had adopted the electric street car including Ottawa (1890); Winnipeg (1891); Toronto, Montr�al and Hamilton (1892); and Halifax (1896). Outside North America, the street car is commonly referred to as a Tram. The street car, although sometimes seen as an artifact of transit, is still a prominent form of public transportation in many cities around the world, such as in Lisbon, Portugal.