Why American trams had nets to catch people - Trolley Safety Devices 

I wanna jump in trampolines

Go home, TOT! You’re drunk!

😂

Bouncy bouncy bouncy bounce

Oh brother, this guy STINKS!

Give the funny thought of a romance brewing between a tram operator and someone he scooped into his tram's net.

@MJC19 was it better than hitting the body?

Would be what CinemaSins calls "The Prometheus School for Running Away From Things," given that someone could (usually) jump off to the side of the tracks and be safe. Though I don't doubt there are still people out there who would do that. I've certainly encountered animals that did, had me chase them a significant distance along the rode or bicycle path when they could have easily escaped to the side.

@@quillmaurer6563 its all fun and games until *the tram jumps out of the track*

@@johnathonmcjohn3 True, and that's probably happened - debris in the track causing it to derail and hit someone or something where they should have been safe. I've heard tram derailments are quite common due to the environment they operate in and the narrow grooves their flanges are in easily being filled with debris. Resulting in a chase like the train chase from "Wrongfully Accused."

You weren't supposed to see that

Almost all of them do!

There are a few traditional streetcars still running, most famously the ones in New Orleans. Or the San Fransisco cable cars, if you count them as trams. There are others, including in Galveston, Texas, among other locations. Those mentioned are historic and I get the sense are mainly kept running for historical purposes, but do still serve as functional transit. There are other historic ones that just go along a short section of track and don't really serve a functional purpose anymore, I know both Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado have those, surely many other cities. Then there's modern light rail in many US cities, which in many systems (including Denver where I live) have portions that function like a tram. Usually not shared with road traffic like some historic trams, but alongside streets with rails embedded in pavement, but with curbs separating the track from the street.

@@quillmaurer6563 I know, but I think you can count those on one hand.

@@saintly2k You mean surviving historic streetcars? Yes, certainly true. There's some modern trams, usually the city-center portion of larger light rail systems rather than purely urban streetcars, though those aren't super common either, not like in Europe.

@@quillmaurer6563 yes

A lot would say yes. Can’t blame them, but decreasing ridership led to their downfall.

@@Mason58654 citires were built around the street car. toronto proved its a viable system

@@randomrazr That maybe true. Same with American cities, but as car ownership increased streetcars became seen as a nuisance.

Yes, but the downfall of the streetcar didn't happen in a vacuum. Streetcars, Interurbans and Mainline Railroads all faced off against the automobile and it's derivatives such as the motor bus and semi truck. The fight started in the 30s with paved roads starting to be adopted on highly traveled routes. That killed off most interurbans in the US. The economic boom following WWII and lasting until the 70s and 80s gave rise to the suburbs and interstate highways. This allowed most people to travel by car and live farther from work by avoiding the often comparatively slow trolley and commuter train and the missed transfers that sometimes come with them. Trolley companies also had to pay for the tracks themselves instead of being effectively subsidized by public roads. This killed off the streetcar with some exceptions and later threatened railroad passenger service across the US all together. Semi Trucks also killed off a large portion of the US freight rail industry with a lot of small less than carload services being discontinued.

@@rileycoyote4924 now were reeping the consequences of having a car dependent cities ?

Should be streetcar instead.

Just for that I'm going to exclusively refer to trolleys as trams in every video I made from this point on

@@TrainFactGuy noooooo *in a over the top way*

“Trolley!” “Streetcar!” “Trolley!” “Streetcar!” “I’ll settle this. Tram.”

@@mattaustin2128 tram is incorrect. The answer is "gods chosen form of transportation

@@mattsmocs3281 agreed!