>>1386018Basically the only reason Melbourne kept its trams post-WW2 was that they had recently put money back into the system, including the commissioning of a new fleet of W class trams. It blew the argument that replacement with buses would be cheaper, considering they just invested a great deal of cash in the 1920s-1940s to replace a lot of outdated cable trams and infrastructure. In other cities like Sydney without the luxury of updated investment and maintenance, the trams were rundown and the cost of replacing them all was deemed to be too expensive compared to buses.
