the view from the tram

from The Age this morning: Rohan Storey talking about the W-class trams and giving his reasons why people love trams in general: "it's the psychological certainty of having those tracks in the road". Which, I think, is an example of why transport was worth including in a book about representation...the way we set up our infrastructure affects the way we then go on to live in the place, and the infrastructure doesn't just happen - it starts as an idea, a plan, a map in someone's head.