After being restored and repaired an old tram circulate in Santiago de Cuba and will cover a stretch that will connect the mall with the Avenida Juan Gualberto Gómez-Flor Crombet, they told Cuban television Beatriz Johnson, vice president of government in the territory.
This old Santiago desire, but it will not mean a great contribution to the problem of transport in the locality itself will provide the city, still drunk in celebration of half a millennium, a new attraction that will appeal to all who visit the untamed land while an air of remembrance will therefore evoke a time when these giant metal lorded in the streets of Santiago de Cuba.
During the hearing of Beatrice Johnson in space Roundtable, also he learned that after completion of the carnivals, the route of this almost forgotten means of transport in Santiago de Cuba will be extended up to two kilometers away.
According to historical records, the first electric tram that circulated in Cuba did in Havana in 1901. Years later, in 1908, this progress was introduced in Santiago, as an alternative urban transportation.
Even today, hidden by the asphalt after the hydraulic rehabilitation of the city, the traces of their existence are observed in some inner-city arteries. In certain streets, for example Enramadas, the tubes are held electrified by means of arms with wheels at one end cables.
The first trams circulated were built in the United States, to be exact, in Philadelphia. Most existing in the city were small models, four-wheel for easy movement and turns through the narrow arteries.