Seven News Sydney - Flashback: Sydney Trams (22/2/2014)

[@ThomasNing]

The footage of vast crowds hopping on moving trams like cable cars at Randwick had my jaw dropped. What an amazing sight, we might finally get to see it again on our new 500 passenger capacity high-frequency trams during special events once covid is over.

[@chris-cs8et]

0:19 WTF MAN

[@wwemario12345]

And now they're back on George Street!

[@bigglesflysagain1749]

You lil'tl beaut !!!!!!!!TRAMS are coming back...whoopppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! What a ripper ! I loved catching the tram from Wynyard...thru dirty spooky tunnel, out onto The Bridge and over to Ryde to visit my Aunty !

[@bigglesflysagain1749]

@Va Sr ...nope.....over the bridge I went.....

[@jaitheminecraftgamer5046]

Now it’s called Light Rail

[@jaitheminecraftgamer5046]

L1 opened in 1997 from Central to The Star

[@jaitheminecraftgamer5046]

L2 opened in 2019 from Circular Quay to Randwick

[@jaitheminecraftgamer5046]

L3 opened in 2020 from Circular Quay to Juniors Kingsford

[@Elainerulesutube]

Sydney had the best tram system in the world!

[@mews56]

One Thing Sydney we are not good at risking is keeping things for the long term.

[@aflaz171]

I can't believe they fucking burnt most of them, no forethought.

[@smitajky]

The experiment with cars for mass transit over specific routes has clearly destroyed city after city. Cars are great for flexibility and terrible for mass transit. But once so many are using cars for mass transit then the cars cannot even be used for flexibility because all the roads become clogged. The roads even become useless for pedestrian traffic because crossing the clogged streets has added an eternity to the time for any trip. But trams either need their own dedicated right of way OR we need to get cars off many streets. Which is not politically popular. Yet the option of allowing the city to grind to a halt with three hour commutes each way is also not politically popular. We cannot easily get the land for a dedicated right of way because all the land was sold one hundred and fifty years ago. Anything not sold is in use for roads. Which are clogged with cars both moving and parked. Unless we wake up to ourselves then there is no future for a reasonable standard of living within a big city. The trams are useful. Visit Melbourne to see how much better it can work. But only if we can control vehicle traffic to a reasonable extent and return the car back to what it does well rather than to that which it does badly.

[@trackdusty]

All energy for the electric trams came from state owned power stations, not foreign owned multinational petroleum monopolies. The new trams are powered by privatised electric power.

[@trackdusty]

The trams were made in Australia from Australian made steel (the cheapest in the world) and Australian labor. The new ones are imported - from where?

[@grantourismo0109]

who was the bogan set the tram on fire ?!

[@chris-cs8et]

F Sydney, removing monorails and trams.

[@carolynnicholson3113]

I have never seen a Tram 🤔 my grandfather used to drive the tram in Sydney but I have not seen one myself I would like to but and I'm not talking about the new ones I'm talking about the old ones😊💖💜💜

[@The_Thai_Major]

Carolyn Nicholson there is one in Harold Park tramsheds

[@peterkirgan2921]

i dont know why they didn't keep a few more of the old trams & used them as a tourist attraction around Sydney??? & put them on the current light rail network !

[@Critical_level]

All those hats omg, fashion of the past now its all gone not many people wear it

[@maxischew514]

*MEANWHILE IN MELBOURNE*

[@chris-cs8et]

Ugh, show-offs.

[@Alex333_]

I love the Light Rail

[@chris-cs8et]

Alex's EPIC Videos, there’s only 1 line from Dulwhich Hill to the CBD.

[@jaitheminecraftgamer5046]

Now there’s 3

[@jayzo]

The trams used the railway line across the Harbour Bridge?!

[@38013813]

afxinfinitee ,they used tracks that were on the eastern side of the bridge,where the Cahill Expressway is now..those tracks were meant to be for a railway to Manly and the Warringah area..that was postponed and the tracks used by Noth Sydney trams..there was a station ar Milsons point where the toll points are now,and they went underground to Wynyard platforms 1 and 2, now the carpark for the Menzies Hotel..there is a car entrance to the tunnel at Cumberland St in The Rocks area near the Shangri la hotel, and the point where the trams entered is stll visible from Argyle steps on the Eastern side walk way

[@doubledee9675]

@@38013813 There was a train service from Manly to Narrabeen for quite a few years, but the Railway Commissioners did not like it. To show that the line did not serve enough people, trains would run 2 services - all stations to Dee Why, and an express to Dee Why then all stations to Narrabeen. But instead of running the express first from the ferry, the all stations headed out, to be followed by the express. It was slowed down with the earlier train stopping at stations. The same in reverse to go south. Result? Insufficient passengers to justify continuation. Then there were the tracks on the eastern side of the bridge to take trams to the northern beaches, the Lower North Shore, and Chatswood.

[@samwilkins5064]

@@doubledee9675 There was never a railway line on the Northern Beaches. Yes it was planned by visionary JC Bradfield but never built. However there were trams until 1939 that ran from the spit to Manly then on to Narrabeen with a Loop to Harbord.

[@doubledee9675]

@@samwilkins5064 I've ever only seen that referred to as a train line.

[@samwilkins5064]

@@doubledee9675 I can guarantee you there was never a rail line only tram. I live in the area and my family has been here since the 1920s, have heard all the stories :)

[@AllRound_GG]

How long until the current government gets rid of them?

[@elijahthombro8868]

Renaldo Saffioti They’re expanding the light rail system, not removing them. It’s heavy rail that you should be worried about, the lines are being replaced or removed like wildfire

[@elijahthombro8868]

Va Sr the carlingford railway line was closed this year which will be replaced by light rail, and other lines, such as Bankstown line will be replaced by metro

[@stumpypetros2685]

OK George st is close to all the pedestrian traffic. But then pedestrians have to dodge trams. And what is it with the Platform tiles being the same colour as the road level tiles. Any partially blind person cannot tell where the step is..

[@stumpypetros2685]

I'm OK with trams BUT.. Sydney is VERY "bumpy" I have used the Wynyard to Dee Why double decker bus. No rail vehicle could make it down the hill to Spit bridge. Other problem is unlike busses which can overtake, Trams cannot easily do that, so if you get a tram breakdown, just like Sydney Trains everything would stop.

[@stumpypetros2685]

@Va Sr Thanks! I stand corrected.. [I thought that was because according to some of the photos I saw that they weaved like a skier to reduce the direct slope, and they would not be able to share the 2 lane weaving with traffic is what lanes the traffic has would probably have to stay that way... In that case yeah, maybe put light rail from chatswood, maybe via Roseville bridge Wakehurst Parkway extension down to the beaches. Build it a bit like the Macca uni tunnel, with tunnel/bridge. Or go back to the old days and terminate in best place, maybe zoo turn off and use shuttle busses to connect the dots?

[@PComp-t3y]

Now our politicians are grasping for solutions with absolutely no insight or cost restraints. The Sydney tramways are beyond ridiculous in cost, environmental impact (mega tons of unnecessary concrete) and total unreliability. GLADYS YOU WERE ANOTHER NIGHTMARE OF A PREMIER, AND CORUPT TO BOOT.

[@SydneyDrums]

They burnt trams that were only a few years old.. replaced with motor buses, paid out by the oil & petroleum industry

[@deankosta6216]

There goes george st

[@scottleft3672]

new trams are an absolut flop.....the old trolleys were slow, open and USEFUL.

[@Alex333_]

The TARDIS 0:48

[@GlobalTriathlonNetwork]

How do you think to a time in the video?

[@utareangara5529]

Trams "lightrail" suck. They dont go anywhere. Were over budget by DOUBLE $3.2 billion for 16km of track, what afucking joke. >

[@bozenahochwallner982]

Dear NSW Transport Minister, Trams for Sydney??? What a preposterous idea! TRAMS AND PEDESTRIANS DO NOT MIX! In my view, it is not the right way to go for future of Sydney. Would you please concentrate on extension and reliability of underground network and do not waste tax payers’ money. Regards, Bozena Hochwallner

[@scottleft3672]

what would you know....they managed for years and culled only the stupid.

[@AheadMatthewawsome]

Bozena Hochwallner They are safer because they can stop if someone was right next to them.

[@AheadMatthewawsome]

And well. I miss the Monorail.

[@nztv8589]

But trucks cars and buses do ?!

[@AheadMatthewawsome]

They do not mix.