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Originally Posted by worldlyhaligonian
Not necessarily true... trams could rip all the way out to CP if the route is planned well. Maybe the benefit of all those stupid shrubby medians in CP would be a tram plopped right in the middle. The densities are even high in the Lacewood area.
Just look at Amsterdam... sure its flat, but its routes aren't exactly straight. The tram #2 goes all the way out to the ring road from central station... a distance further by walking than peninsular Halifax to CP. I expect density to increase within the areas to the east of Bayer's lake. Fairview must have quite a high population density to the east, especially with all these new buildings.
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Is that Amsterdam route a legacy route left over from before the internal combustion era? At one time long distance streetcar routes (tram is a British English term which we use for a cable car in NA) were very common. We even had interurbans in many cities but that was because there wasn't really any choice. Nowdays it takes a high amount of ridership to justify the huge cost of electrification and track laying when there are cheaper alternatives like a bus. Well, perhaps it required high ridership then too, but without buses or private cars to compete, they had it.