On Feb 12, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Not at all. Two things that I'm not likely to see here are snow and > streetcars (trams as we call them). At one stage Sydney had one of the > largest tram networks in the world but in the 1950s the politicians decided > that buses were the future and ripped the entire system up.
Heh, we did the same thing at about the same time (maybe a few years later). Then in the 90s they laid some new rails for a tourist loop at massive cost. They'd just about finished the first extension a year ago but it's all on hold now. I recently saw a photo of a suburban street where the old tram lines were re-exposed by earthquake damage. In that case they'd left the old rails in place and just threw a layer of tar seal over the top. I'd actually like them to bring light rail back into the city and make it useful. Even better if they could figure out a way of getting rail out to the suburbs but I know that's a pipe dream. I always hated the buses in town because they're so noisy. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
