It's what they're used to as well. We certainly don't wax poetic about container ships, but for them it'd probably be somehow interesting.
For us, streetcars are tinged with nostalgia. They're a symbol of an era when St. John's was more important and more urban than it is, really, today. And we're not such a large, busy city that they'd be sweaty and greasy and annoying. There'd be a sort of romance to it, like San Francisco - and many other cities.
I imagine they'd be very popular, and do very well, but never feel as mindless and forgettable as they can in larger centres that never lost them.
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