Detroit electric interurban railways, 1913 Size:14x14 and Return of the King

and Return of the King

Three years later

Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate

at the extreme southwest edge of downtown

kept most of its streetcar system from before World War II

Detroit electric interurban railways, 1913 Size:14x14 and Return of the KingIn 1913, Detroit was booming, and was the cutting edge of the industrial era. It was what Silicon Valley is today. But in 1913, the automobile was a brand new technology the Ford Model T had only gone into production in 1908, and the freeway era was still a half century away. In this period, Detroiters got around the region by train (we'd recognize it today as a form of electric light rail) and travel times would be competitive with modern driving.