Don't know how true it was, really, but it looked likely.

I really don't know why Sydney ditched its trams. I know their patronage had died since the years before the Depression, but Melbourne elected to keep theirs and spent a lot of money in the early '70s buying land and vastly upgrading the network. They're still expanding it today. Sydney, meanwhile has got one light-rail line, and I presume it's making money*, but adding more are a bit of a logistical and political nightmare - unlike Melbourne, Sydney doesn't really have wide enough city streets.

Wade.

* The media would tell us quicksmart if it wasn't - then too, most of it's run is on an otherwise disused goods line...