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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The electric trams were bad, because they were never actually intended as transport - the electric companies just wanted an excuse to hook the neighbourhoods up to electricity, and electric trams were just their excuse for doing so. It wasn't cohesively designed, they didn't necessarily think it was better than cars.

Note that saying they were bad is not the same as saying they had to be bad - they were just poorly executed because they didn't give a shit.