2026-09-02 22:16 UTC
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@PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social 2026-09-02 22:38
@timrichards@aus.social My thoughts go to this. They did road maintenance work in the fashionable and old money part of Montreal last fall. These were the tram tracks uncovered beneath the asphalt before they replaced it with new asphalt. I remember seeing the same thing on the main street downtown once. It's like, wait, we had workable public transit 100 years ago? Of course they can extend public transit to make it more useful. They just don't want to. Anywhere.
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@acb@mastodon.social 2026-09-02 23:01
@timrichards@aus.social Some of the dual carriageways in the suburbs could accommodate fast, congestion-free tram tracks on their median strips. I was thinking that one could join Dandenong with Ringwood (touching the Glen Waverley line and a number of shopping centres and other facilities) with a reasonably straightforward tram line. Though Bell St. to Hoddle St. also sounds like an opportunity.