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Doesn't work in hilly cities. That's why San Francisco has trolleybuses too (and the historical cable cars, but those are more for tourists). They do have light rail where it does make sense though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lisbon is very hilly and uses trams

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't quite remember what they're called but in the UK there's both old mining trains and old cliff trains/trolleys that use toothed wheels and toothed tracks on the hill portions to go up/down hill with little issue, obviously it's only safe for some gradient, but still with the right gearing it would be of possible

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