Note the comment in this March 1952 letter in response to Anne X. Alpern's usual tirade about streetcars - pertaining to Detroit re-instituting streetcars on their Woodward Avenue line because buses didn't work out. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f00EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=5107%2C6060953