Hmmm. Sydney punches well above its weight in terms of numbers carried for ;length of network. Does this mean it should, perhaps, have been built as part of the heavy rail/metro network? What would be the working threshold of patronage for that to have been considered?

I don’t know whether you would analyse in terms of passengers/kilometre, or some other measure.

David

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> Somebody on another forum has neatly graphed a comparison of Melbourne and Sydney tram patronage for the last few years. Melbourne is obviously not fully recovered from the covid slump. Sydney IWLR is still a few million short of its pre-covid 10 million passengers per year, but CSELR is booming. When Parramatta stage one opens, that should hopefully add another 10 million passengers and 12 km to Sydney's figures.

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