^ Yeah that's how I tend to feel about it. Streetcars can be higher capacity than a bus since being on tracks makes it possible to get longer vehicles around turns. Which is especially important for narrower corridors which is how trams are often used in Europe. But in some of the newer systems in NA, they don't use streetcars that are much (or any) longer than an articulated bus nor are the streets particularly narrow. So it almost seems like some of them are just city beatification projects or something, not that different from say, nice landscaping. Which is fine if you have lots of money to spare because otherwise these are questionable uses of funds.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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