Wake up. Its trams. With ugly wires everywhere they go.

Who asked for trams?

It was a great day when the last trams wer

...... were taken out of Sydney previously.

JF,

and it's been downhill ever since.

Is Mise,

What do you mean downhill?

How much Australian export product of what value will be produced by these new trams and the billions to build their infrastructure?

Whilst the light rail project is important, I just want to remind everyone that we have far more pressing issues to contend with right now...

No, it not cheating in the cricket.

It's not US, British, German, French forces facing off against Russia and China in the Mediterranean in a showdown that could go nuclear; no.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been deported from the US.
- Yes, this is not a joke nor is it a laughing matter, you heard me correctly, THEY'RE SENDING HER BACK!

Please No. Anything but this...

//THEY'RE SENDING HER BACK!//

On a plane to Amsterdam. I didn't know you lived in Amsterdam, AC. Mind you, that does explain a lot.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/12/yassmin-abdel-magied-says-she-is-being-deported-from-us

//Had they left the tracks there they would have saved a lot of time and money.//

I rather suspect that that is the point, Is Mise. We had trams in Newcastle as well, until it was decided circa 1950 that trams weren't as good as trains and buses, and they ripped up the tram lines. Now that enough time has passed to let the older people who remember why the trams were removed in the first place die off, it has been decided that trains aren't as good as trams and buses. Presumably it will be decided in the future that trams were a bad idea, and that a combination of heavy rail and buses would be best.

This cycle of playing silly buggers with public transport fulfils the important roles of creating work for public servants and giving the illusion that the State government are actually doing something. So when you think about it, the only real downsides are the enormous cost to taxpayers and the enormous inconvenience it causes to those who rely on public transport. No wonder politicians love the idea so much.