From my office window I can see where the SLUT tracks are getting laid. I doubt I’ll ride regularly, but the occasional lunchtime quickie might be welcome.
You realize everyone’s going to come to Seattle for this now, right? Forget the Space Needle…
Hmm, that I’d call a “cable car”. Over here (and in Ireland where they have the Luas), “tram” specifically means what you call “streetcar” that runs on rails. And NZ I think - they have a “tramway” system in Christchurch, on which “trams” run. Just another one o’ them oddities, I suppose.
For quite some time, the Montreal Urban transit company was abbreviated (in French) as STCUM - it got quite a few laughs from the anglophones in the province. Since the merger, it goes by STM, but the website www.stcum.qc.ca still directs to them.
For some reason I made the comment about taking the “St. Cum” to my husband a while ago; perhaps because he is francophone, he never clued in to that acronym!