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Could you use cargo trams to delivery to grocery stores?
In a walkable city, the grocery stores are way smaller, rails isn't really good for small delivery.
Small cargo car are also needed for some jobs.
But again, these are infrequent uses of the road and those sort of usages are usually allowed inside pedestrian area.
You can have a walkable city and still have roads that allow trucks. Look at any European city.
I live in an European city.
Technically? Of course.
But there's also a bunch of reasons no ones doing it. Even if we disregard the enormous work to lay tram tracks on most roads, tracked vehicles have the major drawback of not being able to go around each other. One unloading tram shuts down the whole line. Also: How much different is a tram from an electric truck? Less particulates from the wheels, but that's pretty much it.
Also tram tracks really suck for cyclists.