Subways are for mobility (moving large numbers of people rapidly); trams are for access (getting you close to your destination). They complement each other and a well-designed city would have both.

I have to disagree. Accessibility of underground transport is abhorrent. Changing from underground to aboveground buses and trains is also shit. The space use of public transport in comparison to car infrastructure is completely negligible. If anything put all the cars underground as they are ugly and stinky. This picture also give you happy chemical because it is green and is not another dead, sealed asphalt hellscape.

But I like watching things outside the trams.

Skytrains my dude, similar footprint, same tech, and I assume it costs significantly less, and is able to dip underground when there absolutely ISNT the footprint for it above ground

Tunnels also don't take away space from people. This nice looking tramway could be a nice promenade for people instead.

Yeah, I guess it depende of definition. For example there is also extra costs with lighting and ventilation for example for subways.

Probably because public transit requires people to be around other people, and they'd rather get around in their little bubble without interaction (except giving a BMW the finger).

Truly insane what we tore up.

Didn't know much about this so just looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

This is at Helsinki, Finland. So all kind of weather is present here.. Well except hot and dry 😄

It's a big problem for anything using rails. https://youtu.be/ZEuFSw-CMzU?feature=shared

Maybe they're just taking a piss? Same for the whole train system shutting down due to a single snowflake.

Eh, it's nothing that actually having enough budget to fund proper maintenance (e.g. tree pruning) can't solve. Presumably, any city on-the-ball enough to build decent infrastructure like this in the first place has got that covered.

I'm looking at unadulterated communism here and I hate it! Remove the green and the tracks and let honest working people park their lifted F 350 to go grocery shopping and bring little Braendin to school!

"Would"? The picture isn't fake, plenty of tram tracks look like this.

-concidering it is in the middle of a city there are basialy no wild animals -this isnt more dangerous to the remaining few than any 4 lane Road -there are city maintenance workers who take care of the trees -during realy bad storms there are also branches on the streets

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1 billion different advantages

The actuall biggest problem would be leaves on the rails in autumn.