Trolley cars in New York City are a thing of the long past. At one time though, trolleys were all over the place and the streets were crisscrossed with their tracks. Eventually though, buses replaced the trolleys and New York City had to do something about all of that idled trackwork.
In many places, road crews tried to simply bury the tracks under layers of new asphalt. That was supposed to be a cost savings measure versus having to actually remove the tracks themselves, but it didn't work. Old track rails kept surfacing as their asphalt layers broke down over the course of time. Eventually, track removal had to be undertaken.
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