Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
The huge sunk cost of trams/trolleys (rails and electric generators/wires) was money already spent. There was nothing to be gained by retaining an obsolete system and throwing more money after bad in order to keep street rail's lack of flexibility in routing which you perversely consider an advantage.
Well as a person who has lived under both conditions (where the teams have stayed in place since their origin and where they've been removed and replaced by auto and/or bus), it's simply superior to live in the former. I don't see any advantage by removing existing tram lines. Most cities run buses in the same physical space.
What suggested benefit am I missing.
Leave my country of birth out of the discussion as it's materially irrelevant.