A closer look
While most modern cities ripped up their streetcar tracks in the mid-twentieth century to make way for gridlocked cars, Melbourne stubbornly clung to the past. Today, the Australian city boasts over 250 kilometers of double track, serving millions of passengers annually. The network is so deeply ingrained in the city's DNA that local drivers have to execute terrifying 'hook turns' from the left lane to turn right, purely to avoid hitting the massive trams dominating the center of the road. It is public transit dominance at its finest.
