Australia’s first trackless tram has arrived in Perth following a long journey from Shanghai, China and will undergo testing before potentially running along an iconic slice of WA’s coast.
Why not just spend that little bit extra and build either a BRT (which is what this actually is) with signal priority, or a real tram line with overhead wires and rails and stuff?
A bus holds 50 people, or 70 super uncomfortably. A tram carries 3-4 times that number. As someone who started sceptical of trams when moving to Melbourne and became an avid convert, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I wish we still had our tram network. If these can fill that niche without all the support infrastructure of a real light rail implementation, I’m in.
Why not just spend that little bit extra and build either a BRT (which is what this actually is) with signal priority, or a real tram line with overhead wires and rails and stuff?
Because they want to build something which sounds cool and exciting whilst not actually helping much
A bus holds 50 people, or 70 super uncomfortably. A tram carries 3-4 times that number. As someone who started sceptical of trams when moving to Melbourne and became an avid convert, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I wish we still had our tram network. If these can fill that niche without all the support infrastructure of a real light rail implementation, I’m in.