Light rail and tram

Longer tram is ‘an advertisement for leaving your car at home’

By 2024-07-11T05:00:00

Berlin Alstom Urbanliner tram (Photo BVG) (8)

GERMANY: The first of the longest trams ever ordered for Berlin has been unveiled by operator BVG. The nine-section trams will be used to increase capacity on Route M4 from Hackescher Markt to Falkenberg and Zingster Strasse, which carries up to 18 trams/direction/h and around 100 000 passengers/day.

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