Re: [TramsDownUnder] Happy New Year

On 31/12/2024 14:35, Geoffrey Hansen wrote:

... it's great to see trams running in a few different cities.

You make a good point.

On 1 Jan 1997 there were just two operational tram/light rail systems in Australia:

1. Adelaide
2. Melbourne

Now there are how many?

1. Adelaide (expanded)
2. Canberra (with extensions underway)
   
3. Gold Coast (built and extended with another extension under way)
4. Melbourne (expanded and with 200 new trams plus 100 more ordered)
   
5. Newcastle
   
6. Parramatta (just opened)
   
7. Sydney (built and expanded)

As for Perth and Brisbane - there's still time to see the light (rail).

Mal Rowe in a tram environment he could not have imagined in the 1990s