that people would construct and buy luxury apartments, when you could instead spend that money on building luxury lower density housing that rich people actually want.
Rich people generally want to show off their wealth, which isn't very easy with apartments. They also tend to want lots of space, which of course is also difficult with apartments.
Rich people live in mansions, not fucking apartments.
Please read my reply to the other person who said the same things.
but you don't need cargo all day, stores generally restock in the off hours or maybe just straight up at night. Certainly grocery stores restock the actual shelves from their internal storage every morning.
So you'd do a cargo tram run every night when there's plenty of time to do things slow and not have to worry about passenger services.
As for switches, that's the thing! you wouldn't need extra switches since you can operate outside of passenger hours and just use the existing platforms most of the time, maybe building a little extra platform where needed.
The only really new part of this is using trams, it's already perfectly normal for most deliveries to be made in the off hours in places where there's a lot of pedestrianization.
it's honestly kinda strange that cargo trams aren't used more, i obsess over gothenburg's tram network and the suburban lines definitely seem like they should make sense to run some cargo on.
Especially this line should be perfect for cargo trams, you can set up a siding just north of Gamlestaden station and transfer goods to a tram there, then take the conveniently already existing traingle track to turn onto the line to bergsjön, and then you can just use the existing stops to unload stuff early in the morning and take it to the shops with those electric mini-forklifts since a lot of shops are right next to the stations (sensibly!).
"luxury apartments" will never cease to sound like an oxymoron to me, it's like "low-budget castle"
maintenance tram and bonus rural tram track, ooooh
people starting the week with sunday will never cease to inflict psychic damage
"Much appreciated Rrhalnax old fellow, t'was getting mighty annoying and these barbers do masterful work. Always worth the trip to look handsome."
zeta males however, will simply probe you
fucking elizabethans, no it can't possibly be that they put on fat so they can —like— survive not eating; no it's that the fat makes them sleep
brains so fucking huge they needed corsets and collars for structural support
literally sliding through the apartment it seems
yeah, and i think part of the issue is that you'd really need the city itself to push for it and organize it.