{"id":17435,"date":"2011-01-23T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2011-01-23T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:55:23","slug":"the-last-trams-of-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/01\/23\/the-last-trams-of-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"The last trams of Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"600\" height=\"496\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kO2DmTnXlDA&amp;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kO2DmTnXlDA&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As more and more (and more and more and more) cities return to and install light rail and streetcars, this film from Glasgow captures that time in the postwar era when trams were thought to be outdated. It turns out the past is the future. Toronto nearly had the same fate, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/streetcar\/4002.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Streetcar Abandonment Policy<\/a> (scroll down) was itself abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more and more (and more and more and more) cities return to and install light rail and streetcars, this film from Glasgow captures that time in the postwar era when trams were thought to be outdated. It turns out the past is the future. 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