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=== Tramway === [[File:Havana tram surf.jpg|thumb|Havana tramway in 1950]] Havana operated a tram system until 1952, which began as a [[horsecar]] system, Ferro Carril Urbano de la Habana in 1858,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tramz.com/cu/hb/hb.html|title=The Tramways of Cuba|access-date=2 February 2020|archive-date=21 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121091121/http://www.tramz.com/cu/hb/hb.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> merged with rival coach operator in 1863 as Empresa del Ferro-Carril Urbano y Omnibus de La Habana and later electrified in 1900 under new foreign owners as Havana Electric Railway Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tramz.com/cu/hb/hbb.html|title=The Tramways of Cuba|access-date=2 February 2020|archive-date=22 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122140446/http://www.tramz.com/cu/hb/hbb.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ridership decline resulted in bankruptcy in 1950 with new owner Autobus Modernos SA abandoning the systems in favor of buses and the remaining cars were sold to [[Matanzas]] in 1952.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
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