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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
The lack of convenient, cheap public transport had long been a serious shortcoming of city living. This need was partially answered around 1830 by the introduction of horse-drawn omnibuses, but by the late 1850s it was clear that a better form of urban transit—the horse car—promised to lift public transportation up and out of the mud. Large, reliable, commodious cars gliding smoothly over polished rails easily outran the squat omnibuses that were left far behind to jostle over the rutted city streets. The street railway, heralded as the new wonder of the age, promised to make fortunes for prudent investors and to ease the burdens of crosstown travel for ordinary citizens.
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