Indianapolis streetcar system and interurban light rail map, 1916 Size:24x36 Also depicted is the monorail

Also depicted is the monorail formerly planned between the now-scuttled Biscayne Bay casino and Miami Beach

released in 1962

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

This map depicts the streetcar system near its ridership peak in 1925

Indianapolis streetcar system and interurban light rail map, 1916 Size:24x36 Also depicted is the monorailIndianapolis 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