Indianapolis streetcar system and interurban light rail map, 1916 Size:24x36 released in 1962

released in 1962

Over two decades before the Washington Metro system was approved

corrupt politics

which was modeled after the San Francisco BART system

and its expansion was only possible due to the post-WW2 expansion of cheap residential air conditioning

Indianapolis streetcar system and interurban light rail map, 1916 Size:24x36 released in 1962Indianapolis used to have the largest interurban light rail system in the country. The old Traction Terminal across the street from the State House had 500 trains a day going in and out of its central terminal before World War I. It also had a correspondingly large city streetcar system to match. But this was not to last: the spread of the automobile, the truck and the bus put many of the interurban lines out of business. By the crash of 1929, the