>>992235>>993236And then there's our glorious tram system, 30km of line divided in two separate systems which cover areas that used to be poorly served by public transit, and being 2nd gen it's all 100% ROW and uses large vehicles (2,65m wide, up to 60m long if you couple two trams together). Yet for more than ten years the central connection of both systems has remained mothballed, meaning that the trams main function has been as a feeder to just one subway line, just for lack of 3,8 km of line which would run it into downtown along a popular thoroughfare and connect with metro lines 1 to 7, that's all of the important ones.
Now some people are spouting that we don't need to finish the tram system and should just improvise a bus line (they say it ought to be an electric bus, though not a trolleybus bc wires are unsightly, since to them apparently it's about being electric and not about convenience, speed and capacity), as if a bus line between the tram termini would in any way resolve the problem. Also the bus system in that part is at capacity (the tram was supposed to double as a high capacity substitute for this bus corridor), and there's so many lines already that buses bunch up and slow down to a crawl.
The only reason this hasn't been done is because politicians have been using this project to attack other politicians over it, some of them even contradicting the same things they said just a few years earlier, all the while fearmongering over what will happen (hurr muh traffic collapse, hurr muh waste of money, hurr muh buses). They made up this bullshit argument of HURR DURR ELECTRIC BUSES ARE FINE DESU and now people are repeating that shit like parrots even though it makes no sense at all.
