Vintage TTC streetcars could soon return to Toronto streets

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2. Those PCC cars almost last forever

The Toronto streetcars are representative of a design that last literally for DECADES. First built in the mid-1930’s, with the last ones built in North America in 1952, they can and did run for decades, outlasting multiple generations of buses and giving the lie to right-wing penny-pinchers comparing the price of a new PCC to some bus design that lasts at most maybe twenty years before it’s worn out.

I was born in Dallas, the privately-owned transit company bought some PCCs in 1945, retired them a few years later when they abandoned trolley rails, and sold them to the MTA in Massachusetts. The MTA ran them until 1978, the PCCs outlasting their rubber tired, internal-combustion contemporaries for decades..