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[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A few of them did, but certainly not the majority.

Atlanta's streetcar system got entirely torn out, paved over and converted to buses. We didn't get a subway system (on entirely different right-of-way, and much less of it) until decades later.

[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Similar with Montreal. A whole grid of streetcar lines just got torn up and replaced with buses. We now have a nice metro now at least, but it certainly wasn't made from pre-existing tramways.