Is it a tram? Is it a bus? Which Metro works best?

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Is it a tram? Is it a bus? Which Metro works best?

One of Brisbane Metro’s electric buses… a fraction of the cost of Canberra’s Metro’s 19th century tram technology. “The considerably lower per km cost of the Brisbane Metro compared to the Canberra Metro results from using existing infrastructure, including busways, and investing not in rails but in what benefits the public, namely electric vehicles,” writes BEATRICE BODART-BAILEY. It all began with horse-drawn carriages running with small steel…