Light rail or tram in Sydney

Sydney, the largest city in Australia, once had the largest tram system in Australia, the second largest in the Commonwealth (after London), and one of the largest in the world. It was extremely intensively worked, with about 1,600 cars in service at any one time at its peak during the 1930s. The system was in place from 1861 until its winding down in the 1950s and closure in 1961.
In 1997, more than 30 years after trams disappeared from Sydney streets, the Metro Light Rail, a privately owned single line, opened.

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[Larsky1010]

Those are LONG vehicles! Handsome, too!

[ithacalk]

It's a light rail, not a tram!!

[cityraildude]

@joe9320

But I don't live in Melbourne, do I? I live in Sydney!

[TjMagnaSi]

Sadly they call them trams but there not.

[joe9320]

@cityraildude We still got Melbourne. We kept the trams.

[powertools1]

@tangarbage Private ownership probably prevented inclusion in Myzone. Like the railway stations on the airport line, privately owned with publicly owned trains running through so you have to pay extra to get off the publicly owned train at the privately owned stations. The monorail might also get more business from locals if it went somewhere where anyone other than a tourist wants to go. It's not really commuter focused.

[tangarbage]

it sucks how the only pleasant, environment friendly and efficient form of land transportation in sydney isnt included in the recent myzone fare project forcing commuters to pay a separate fare to ride the tram, expensive fares and lack of new routes are the biggest obstructions stopping sydneysiders from embracing this wonderous form of public transport, at least with the monorail its possible to get your money's worth by going around the loop three times instead of getting dumped at the end

[chieftanzzz]

@dat581 and its long overdue. Its about time

[dat581]

Extensions to Circular Quay and Dulwich Hill approved.

[Bails992]

they should of kept the old trams what they didnt know was that Sydney was going to get so many bloody immigrants swarming in so now the traffic is very bad if they would of kept them people in Sydney would be able to get around easier instead of relying on trains buses and cars!

[cityraildude]

Why did Sydney get rid of ou trams :( we could've benifited by making a private tram system where people own their own tram-trins :(/ The problem is ], the idiot designers of Sydney didn't plan for the futer amd mow we have traffi problems...

[nalcbotany]

Good question. We had trams before we had cars so the roads were fairly quite back then, then there was a car revolution and the trams had to go. Check out the tram videos I have favoured on my home page