Re: Trams are Cars?

[Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

Johann Fan wrote:

> Noticed recently that trams and tram services are called 'cars'

Tramcars.  In the US they are streetcars.

When I was a kid growing up in Melbourne, the signs at tram stops read
"hail cars here" for request stops and "cars stop here" for compulsory
stops. They were changed to "tram stop" about the time the Zs began
entering service in the mid-1970s. The original "tram stop" signs even
had a stylised Z on them.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand