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[REJECTED] Streetcar -> tram

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skylightcrystal

seika0 said:
You don’t see aerial trams or trains running on streets (outside of designated crossing areas, if you want to be persnickety about it).

I'm going to just leave this here (yes I know this line is no longer in active use, although it is still there and still usable - there are places in India where heavy rail trains regularly run along roads even today as well as a case here in the UK a few years ago where a temporary road was built along an actively used railway track as a diversionary route)
Or perhaps this one from the US ? (about 7 mins in)

But anyway, it seems apparent that both streetcar and tram are ambiguous to a certain extent and, whilst tram is the one I'd have gone with if I were designing the site (as I've never heard of a cable car cabin referred to as a tram), it appears that one term is not significantly better than the other so there's little case for changing which is the main tag.

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Etou

skylightcrystal said:

I'm going to just leave this here (yes I know this line is no longer in active use, although it is still there and still usable - there are places in India where heavy rail trains regularly run along roads even today as well as a case here in the UK a few years ago where a temporary road was built along an actively used railway track as a diversionary route)
Or perhaps this one from the US ? (about 7 mins in)

But anyway, it seems apparent that both streetcar and tram are ambiguous to a certain extent and, whilst it is the one I'd have gone with if I were designing the site (as I've never heard of a cable car cabin referred to as a tram), it appears that one term is not significantly better than the other so there's little case for changing which is the main tag.

Thanks for sharing this info. I had no idea those kinds of train lines existed.

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279okshap

By far the most relevant difference between "streetcar" and "tram" is that "streetcar" is primarily North American English usage and "tram" British English and European (see, for instance, [1], [2] .) Other differences (mostly relating to weird edge cases) can certainly be created with the application of enough pedantry, but are also tangential to the main issue, which is that there is no main issue.

I'd imagine that it's possible to create a thread about reversing the direction of an implication that already exists, for a tag with 140 posts, whose wiki page already says all that really needs to be said, that isn't a waste of time. But this isn't it.

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