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[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As far as I'm aware, the only city in the western world that truly kept its pre-automobile streetcar network was Melbourne, Australia. A result is it today has the largest tram network of any city in the world.

It hurts my soul to imagine how basically every city in North America had similar networks, but they were almost completely annihilated, save for small fragments in a small handful of cities.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Toronto, Canada has kept its streetcar network since they were horse drawn. Today the network is 83km long, or a third of Melbourne's.

[–] Danatronic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically Australia is east of the international date line so it's not even really the western world.

[–] pfannkuchen@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Most of the people there are white so it counts as Western