^Indeed. A tram is in a way a extreme-high capacity bus that also adds greatly to passenger comfort, permanence that attracts investment near the line and increases ridership on the line. By adding riders to the line it makes for fewer taking other forms of transport (cars!) in the area and thus makes for better traffic than buses.
To me it is obvious that both trams and subways should be part of a city's transit system. It's a question of which line should have what.
/tired of people who want trams bashing subways and subway proponents bashing trams.
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Stockholm numbers for 2011
County population 2.1M (the whole metro area, all covered by one transit agency)
Modal share:
Transit: 26%
Car: 43%
Walk: 27%
Bike: 4%
Total ridership on an average weekday:
739 000
/gah, the reports made by SL suck at showing real numbers on this. They used to be pretty good, now they suck.
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