12 December

Thanks again to Adam Hyland for this one. Sydney once had an extensive network of trams, and it's now desperately trying to restore a small fraction of that sort of transport with light rail, at enormous cost. Let's never forget that the NRMA was probably the main culprit in having the trams ripped up. The NRMA had a cuddly reputation with the public (before it got into insurance anyway), but they were ruthless lobbyists in having the trams removed. It's one of the great public acts of vandalism in Australian history.