On Dec 20, 10:54*am, amogles wrote:

and the tram system we see in Germany today are in many cases
just the skeletons of what once was.

And some cities closed them entirely, and operated the same routes and
infrastructure with buses. That lead to idiocy like these on the
Hamburg equivalent of Oxford Road (city - uni - where a lot of
students live), which should, as with Manchester, be a tram route.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XXL-Bus.JPG

Neil