Very much agree with you. Trams and metros fulfill different functions.

The “crazy” take in my opinion was equating keeping the tram system with not building metros, that trams “clog up the road”, and the dubious claims Musk could actually provide boring at ludicrously low cost.

Don’t get me wrong, the costs involved with building metros in the anglosphere are not in step with the rest of the world, but colour me sceptical about anything to do with musk, given all the quality issues with Tesla.

The average speed is from being slowed down due to traffic and non-priority signalling.

You, and Alan, clearly have no idea what the tram system in Melbourne is like.

He presents no reliable argument for why “trams […] clog up the roads”, nor why trams are a mistake to have kept.

He conflates the fact Melbourne didn’t build more metro lines (which we absolutely should have, and should do now) with keeping the tram network.

It’s pro-car nonsense.

Cars clog up the roads and slow down trams, not the other way around.

Thankfully Melbourne kept its tram network, sadly, it did not build enough trains.