Originally Posted by
Pedaleur
I love trams! But then again I love 'quaint'...
The new city government here (Odense, DK) had as a part of their platform building a tram line between downtown and the university. Other than you can haul more passengers per trip, I fail to see the usefulness of committing so much money to a permanent route.
But what the heck. It'll be quaint.
I don't live in Boston but many of the subways come above ground as ya leave the city center and fit the tram definition. They are quaint, and a godsend for Student Ghetto residents from Chestnut Hill to Cambridge who need to get around. I hardly mean to suggest they have no virtues. But with the exception of these specialized, rare, and usually artificially imposed urban densities and automobile transport costs, trams (and mass transit in general) is a complete failure.
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