Quite often but it was in the '50s in Brooklyn. We called them trolleys. The tracks for them (similar to railroad tracks set into the pavement) ran along the same avenues as car traffic. You'd have to stand in the middle of the street traffic while waiting for a trolley!! The service was slowly phased out in Brooklyn by the late '50s although the tracks themselves remained on streets into the late '60s.

BTW - the name of our baseball team, the Dodgers, came from the term, "Trolley dodgers". Coincidentally the team left Brooklyn about the same time as the last trolley service.