Although faced with the same trade-off of five lives for one, most people say it would be wrong to stop the trolley this way.
It's a three-hour commute by bus and trolley each way from her shabby one-bedroom apartment in southeast San Diego to the school in Point Loma, a sun-bleached bayside community.
But with some malevolent help from the auto and real estate industries, the trolleys gave way to the almighty car.
You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way.
This American-made trolley works its way alongside the renovated docks and glitzy restaurants of the Embarcadero.
By Mark Remy December 4, 2017 You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way.
A shopping trolley whirls its way across the tarmac unaided and the cars of Route 9 rush by.
In August 2001, the bulkhead along the pier outside his trolley bay gave way, damaging the track and auguring a larger collapse.
Me and my brother rolled down this hill on a trolley, all the way to the bottom and we fell off and were laughing, and then we went back up the hill, and this car pulled up and a woman got out with a guy and they took me away".
The idea recalls the way trolleys moved relatively freely and widely spaced down the middle of crowded city streets.
