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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. These revived tram networks now move far more passengers per hour than the bus routes they replaced, while producing a fraction of the emissions.
  2. Several municipalities responded by laying new tram lines along their busiest corridors, often reusing the very routes abandoned decades earlier.
  3. By the late twentieth century, worsening congestion and air pollution forced many of the same cities to reconsider that decision.
  4. From the 1950s onward, however, city planners tore up tram tracks in favor of buses and private cars, viewing rails embedded in the road as an obstacle to traffic flow.
  5. Throughout the early twentieth century, electric trams formed the backbone of urban transport in cities across the world.