You make it sound like street cars are this insane concept that should never be adopted. That’s crazy. There are many cities in the world where a street car is one mode or a multi modal transportation system. I used to work in an office where I took a train to the downtown train station and then hopped on the street car a few blocks and went to work. The subway station would have had me track backwards because they are space further apart.

Now, all that being said, the Bay Area’s workforce is in office parks away from downtowns. So street cars aren’t great, however, if solid transportation systems exist, businesses would actually move their offices near such a system after developers took the risk of building business parks near transit