>>1945185No, but they serve two different purposes so they should have been both used simultaneously.
Trams should be intended to be higher capacity and benefit from either dedicated rights of way or signal priority to let them pass streets and shit more efficiently.
Buses benefit from being able to be easily rerouted when routes need to be expanded, shortened or detoured (construction etc). But their drawbacks are that they're small, loud as fuck (especially if your roads are fucked), get stuck in traffic and they tend to have shitty frequency.
I'm glad that in Toronto they kept the streetcar/tram network after all this time and it is the only city with a full fledged system (tourist shit doesn't count). We have 11 routes and still have a lot of old tracks sitting in the roads that if needed, could one day be reused although there is little chance of that due to the subway and bus network being able to also handle a lot of passengers. Fun fact: they (along with the subway) use 1,495mm tracks which is 4 ft 10+7⁄8 in for the retards in America and Liberia. Though they are constructing new high capacity light rail transit lines which have rolling stock that use standard gauge.
