Opinion

Trackless trams and the fantasy of community co-operation

By Letters to the Editor
Updated December 5 2018 - 9:15pm, first published 12:00am

I know I shouldn't believe everything I read on the web but I am brought up short when I see Prof Peter Newman, the urger of 19th-century trams on Canberra, compare their "high cost, long construction period", with their trackless, wireless 21st-century Chinese descendants described as "low-cost, short construction period, huge volume, energy efficient and environmentally friendly".

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