🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ From the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies archive: a 2000 study revisits restoring rail across the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, once home to Key System streetcars before conversion to auto-only traffic in 1963. 🚃
This fascinating history echoes the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” era story of streetcar systems being dismantled as car infrastructure expanded across U.S. cities.
Learn more ⤵️ https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/rails-across-bay-exploring-forgotten-transportation-future
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2️⃣/2️⃣ The document comes from LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at U.C. Berkeley, a digital archive of planning reports, policy documents, and public records preserved in partnership with @internetarchive.
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