Adelaide Tramway Network Timeline Map: 140 Years of Trams (1878-2018) 

Thanks to Australia copying everything America did and the car industry

Most definitely agree

Seems like one mayor of that city hated trams.

Classic western city, ripping out all but 1-2 of their tram lines or ripping them out altogether.

And without doubt we wouldn’t have the traffic congestion we now see daily … yes we’ve gone backwards in services

id love to see this too but i imagine it would be much more difficult to find detailed information on this compared to tramway route opening and closing dates and line maps.

While that would be fantastic to see, it was considered but deemed not feasible for this project. As @TJtheWonderChild correctly pointed out, the research required to accurately create the required maps would be intense in terms of time, research, and additional animation work. By using a contemporary map of metropolitan Adelaide, viewers of today are better able to relate and physically position themselves in relation tramlines of the past.

To be fair, we shouldnt just be making the same mistakes of old tram systems, there were good reasons to at least redesign how they work in our street landscapes. Sydneys new George Street and the upcoming opening of the Parramatta Light Rail is a good example of how to do it right and these entire corridor are now the focal points of those cities. Trams work best when they have their own dedicated corridor free from traffic and with lots of foot traffic. They also are even more effective with multiple lines connecting but not sharing track, and running to interchanges with train station rather than trying to take passengers from the trains - it needs to form a true network. Trams have a great weakness which is interacting eith other traffic, as you would have experienced on some lines in Melbourne and was a driving factor behind many of the closures of lines in Sydney. For the AdeLINK project to be successful it would need to fearlessly give priority to the light rail vehicles. I would also suggest that the single biggest difference which would bring Adelaides transport into the 21st century and revolutionise the way people move in the city is a tunnel connecting the Seaford and Flinders lines with the Gawler and Outer Harbour lines straight through the city. You could cut journey times, massively increase the number of trains per hour and provide comfortable modern air conditioned stations in the city like what Brisbane and Auckland are doing.

They got rid of the horse trams because the horses used to shit on the route.

@@tommyblack7998 When ya gotta go ya gotta go

two different companies I think but I really don't know