Manila Welcomes Locally Engineered Electric “Tram” to the Walled City

CleanTechnica
By Raymond TribdinoMar 23, 2026, 9:50 pm91 ptsTrending
The office of The Manila Times, where my “day job” is located, is within the historic walled city of Intramuros where the original tranvias (streetcars) operated during the late Spanish era (starting in 1886). They eventually evolved with the American electric tram system, but that was decimated during…

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