I'd say Gold Coast is a better example, indeed the best in Australia, because it's up and running, successful and proven already, being extended to integrate with rail, uses some tight road spaces (to address a common objection in the comments on that piece), is fast and is well-integrated with the bus system that feeds it.

Tony P

---InTramsDownUnder@..., <brent.efford@...> wrote :

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/97656503/opinion-lessons-for-wellington-from-canberras-light-rail https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/97656503/opinion-lessons-for-wellington-from-canberras-light-rail

The regional councillors who wrote this morning’s newspaper op ed were, incidentally, the only current ones to challenge the imminent trolleybus abandonment!

IMHO, Adelaide would have been a better example for a fact-finding visit, being a long-extant system in the process of extension (comparable to the role that LRT should play in Wellington), but any politician interest in LRT is to be welcomed.

Brent Efford