What happened to London's trams?

[Admiral Beez]

Interesting vid...

 

[H4F33Z]

Thought you were talking about London, ON. Oh well

 

[Towered]

Double decker trams - I love it. They really ought to bring those back. It really is unfortunate that the UK fully got on board with widespread tram removal in their cities, while on mainland Europe they were largely kept.

 

[lrt's friend]

We did not have the foresight that private transportation was not sustainable in our cities in the long-term. Congestion was inevitable. This is a reflection of democratic society that has such a short planning cycle. And the ultra-democratic and anti-socialist United States is why that country lost the most public transit infrastructure of all.

 

[Towered]

We did not have the foresight that private transportation was not sustainable in our cities in the long-term. Congestion was inevitable. This is a reflection of democratic society that has such a short planning cycle. And the ultra-democratic and anti-socialist United States is why that country lost the most public transit infrastructure of all.

Yes - it's amazing to me to think that LA, the poster-boy city for massive highways and traffic congestion, at one point had the largest streetcar network in the world I believe. It's quite depressing to think how casually the pre-war generation (whatever they're called) destroyed the great infrastructure painstakingly put into place by the Victorian generation.

The city has suffered from that catastrophic decision ever since.

 

[robmausser]

Thought you were talking about London, ON. Oh well

Here you go!

Streetcars in London, Ontario - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A streetcar travels beside the Thames River in downtown London, Ontario, in 1894

Btw, is this really a "Streetcar" or a Rivercar?