Excerpt from Street Tramways for London: Their Utility, Convenience, and Necessity, With Some Remarks on the Working of Street Railways, in the United States and Canada In reply to the question, whether a proposition to remove the Street Railways and replace the cars by omnibuses, cabs or any other known mode of conveyance, would receive the support of any considerable number of people, the authorities of New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and other cities, asserted with remarkable unanimity that the idea was absurd, and that if such a proposition were seriously brought forward, it would be opposed by every class of the peopl'e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.