- first horse-drawn tramways ran in England in 1807... first cable-run tramways ran in San Francisco, US in 1873... Québec city has started building one... for the twenty-first century... huh?

For a number of years now

All we've been hearing

About is how good it'd be

For our city to modernize.

So, what did the geniuses

At city hall come up with?

Let's build a whole city-

Wide tramway network!

Is it just me, but isn't that

Far from being modern?

A throw-back to the 1800s

Doesn't strike as novelty,

Certainly doesn't scream

Modernization in any way.

Wonder where the link's made

That it's anywhere present-day.

It's really lost on me.