Australia without a car Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
overview of the transport in Australia
About Australia without a car
Many of Australia's largest cities, such as Sydney and Brisbane, once had extensive streetcar networks that were on-par with and just as extensive as Melbourne's tram system. Following World War II, Australian cities followed in the United States' footsteps and embraced automobiles, trimming down their tram systems in favor of highway expansion into the suburbs. Melbourne was the only city to retain its tram system, while the other Australian cities dismantled their tram networks (except for a single line in Adelaide) and replaced them with buses. Compared to the United States, Australia's isolating geography with only a few large cities, and very few towns in the vast distances that separate the cities in between, means that most rail systems are limited to the commuter rail networks of t
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