We've often dreamed of the return of the trolley, which last rolled in Brooklyn on this date in 1956--in fact, the very last run terminated at Church Ave and McDonald. Today the Brooklyn Eagle looks back at the history of the electric streetcar, noting that World War II drove up the demand:
Wartime gasoline restrictions limited automobile and bus use, enabling streetcars to remain a necessary and successful aspect of the city’s transit system. The period between 1941 and 1945 was a second golden age of trolleys in Brooklyn as virtually every usable piece of rolling stock was trotted out of the car barns to fill the demand.
When buses took over, that Church Avenue line became what we know today as the B35. It's also one of the few bus lines that someone has bothered to create a Yelp page for. Would you prefer if it went back to a trolley line instead?
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