登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
出版Arcadia Publishing, 2011
主題History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)Transportation / Railroads / History
ISBN07385849759780738584973
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=67CGT2R1ujcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋Streetcar lines grew and prospered in Dallas from 1872 until

the 1920s. Automobile competition siphoned many of their

riders away, but ridership soared again during World War II .

After the war, the trolleys entered an era of gradual attrition, and

they were abandoned by 1956. Amazingly, in 1989, the nonprofit

McKinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA ) returned restored

vintage trolley cars to the city in the Uptown neighborhood near

downtown. MATA evolved from a tourist attraction into a true

transit company and became the M-Line. Since then, the area

has experienced rapid growth and is now home to midrise office

buildings and upscale apartments.