Harry Christensen wrote that Cleveland had the largest streetcar system in terms of miles in the Midwest outside of NY and Chicago…Pittsburgh I know had a huge system and RAN LATER then Cleveland. and BTW---- Which city now PGH or Cleveland has more Light Rail miles…include Cleveland Red Line and perhaps include the PGH East Busway… Cleve has about 32 miles and you might want to include the new silver line busway if you want to count busways on top of that (Cleve RTA Silver Line- 5 miles
Pittsburgh’s busways are more extensive than the Euclide corridor, the long east-west one and the south one that shares the South Hills tunnel with light rail. The Cleveland Blue and Green lines today are less in mileage than the Pittsburgh light rail system, but adding the red line puts Cleveland ahead. Clevelands interurbans could take you as far west as Danville, Illinois and Greenbay Wisconsin, via round about routes, and certainly to Louisville and Cincinnati and Detoirt. Pittsburgh;s interurbans never really connected with the vast midwest network, although they could get you to Buffalo, east to Latrobe, south to Brownsville, Roscoe, and Washington, PA. But after WWII Pittsburgh had more local, as well as interurban mileage, because so much of Cleveland had been abandoned, even at the time both were running PCC’s.