• Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.worldOPM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    As far as I’m aware, the only city in the western world that truly kept its pre-automobile streetcar network was Melbourne, Australia. A result is it today has the largest tram network of any city in the world.

    It hurts my soul to imagine how basically every city in North America had similar networks, but they were almost completely annihilated, save for small fragments in a small handful of cities.

    • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Toronto, Canada has kept its streetcar network since they were horse drawn. Today the network is 83km long, or a third of Melbourne’s.

    • Danatronic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Technically Australia is east of the international date line so it’s not even really the western world.