return of trams in Brisbane
The Track Less Travelled: How Brisbane is Bringing Back the Spirit of the Trams for 2032 If you stood on Queen Street sixty years ago, the soundtrack of Brisbane wouldn't have been the hum of hybrid buses or the ding of electric scooters. It would have been the distinctive, rhythmic *clack-clack* of tram wheels on steel tracks and the sharp *clang-clang* of a motorman’s warning bell. With major international teams, developers, and sports officials arriving in Brisbane to inspect our progress, everyone is talking about how the city plans to move millions of people. And while the shiny new vehicles hitting our streets look like something out of a sci-fi movie, they are actually a massive nod to a piece of history we lost. ## The Glory Days: A City on Tracks Brisbane once boasted one of the finest electric tramway networks in the southern hemisphere. From 1897 until the late 1960s, a massive 106-kilometre web of steel tracks crisscrossed the city, stretching from Paddingt...