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Asias: Lack of Trams.

Breaking Down their Perplexing Absence.

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Reece
Oct 13, 2025
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A friend Brendon recently reached out to me with the following:

“Hey Reece, random question for you — I’m in Singapore right now and have been traveling around Asia and have been a bit puzzled about the fact that there are very few trams anywhere in East Asia. I’m wondering if it is a function of a lot of the urbanization in China, Singapore, etc happen…

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