In the USA we used to have an extensive and very effective tram system both in Chicago and in the first city to its north Evanston, both in Illinois. But our auto industry lobbied to have them torn up literally to _force_ people in the USA to buy more cars (although it was framed as “making more room for cars, should people happen to want to buy them”), and you can still find the old tracks here and there poking through where the asphalt has worn, often along what remain major arteries for travel, albeit now clogged by automobile traffic. What a dreadful shame.
I find the Stockholm tram system very often over crowed and not on time. I used to take the tram to school, until last year, and it was expected that the trains would run 15-30 min over time. Normally in the late nights when no-one is riding it, it takes about 15-20 min fastest to get from Årstaberg to Sickla Kaj. But in the mornings and on afternoon the ride becomes up to 40 min and some cases even more. And also is very over crowded. The SL in my opinion itself is a very bad company and could do better if it was pushed harder, it's busses are good but not satisfactory, there's always something wrong or broken with everything, the trains, the trams the busses. Only thing that works really properly for them is the small boat line in the middle of Stockholm. I prefer the Tallinn's tram system over the one of Stockholm's, and I so love Estonian busses, the quality is just different. Haven't been to Zagerb, Prague, Budapest or Vienna though, should go visit them one day.
I grew up in Mannheim, Germany. I could get anywhere I needed to go in the city as well as neighboring cities (even in other states!) by riding the Straßenbahn or OEG trams. I never needed a car, infact no one in my immediate family owned a car until the 1980s. Everyone just rode bikes or trams. If you missed one, there would be another one soon. Mannheim's tram system was connected with Ludwigshafen on the other side of the Rhine river as well as the cities of Heidelberg, Weinheim, Heddesheim, Viernheim and Seckenheim. It was awesome and I really miss not having a light rail system where I live now in Texas. Our bus system sort of sucks, I don't even know where the closest stop would be, I have never seen a marked stop for the buses.
@@Siggy4844 Unfortunately the tram from Eppelheim to Schwetzingen will not be reinstalled anytime soon. Same goes for the Tram to Nußloch. Greetings from Dossenheim.
Prague, Vienna Zagreb and Warsaw - the first two ones are very extensive and dense in the city centre (but I think Prague is more utilized due to smaller metro and train system), Zagreb has an amazing number of daily passengers (almost equal to the city citizens number) while Warsaw is I think one of the best maintained tramway system - also it has to be noted that the system was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in late 40's and 50's in a different shape and those of the tracks which stayed had their gauge changed from 1525 mm to 1435 mm. Bucharest tram network is basically dying from poor maintenance (although impressively big), while Paris and Berlin have interesting suburban systems, but they are too fragmented - and Bern is a good one but the city is much smaller than most European capitals.
I believe Paris canceled trams, but decided to bring it back. So it is impressive, as they are one of the few who built large system in 80s, other cities had them since horse pulled trams.
@@Pyrochemik007 that is correct, and in that Paris succeeded, but admittedly Ile-de-France tram is quite faulty in how most of the lines are disconnected from each other.
@@Pyrochemik007 they are, but metro won't send a replacement tram if one is broken and trams en route cannot enter metro tunnels if for example there was a crash on its route, so when the routes aren't connected to each other, they are very prone to accidents.
Budapest, Hungary has the best tram system in the world. It has over 30 lines including Line 2, the most beautiful tram line in the world, Line 1 one of the longest tram lines in Europe and Lines 4/6 which are the busiest in the world! We even have the longest trams in the world! They are CAF Urbos 3 come in 3,5 and 9 cars long! An honorable mention goes to Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Zurich (Even though not the capitol) equally impressive systems!
@@Valaki415 I haven't been to Hungary in 3 years so it's been a while and want to ride around on the BKK. They've made a lot of improvements and progress on the past few years.
@Leonard Andrei I haven't looked too close into Romanian tram systems but I do like them! They are vary similar to the ones in Hungary! In term of Budapest vs. Bucharest, both capitals have an immense network the is the backbone of the public transport system as a whole. I'd love to go and travel on the Romanian transport one day!
European capitals are mostly flat, whereas Lisbon is known as "the city of the 7 hills", and the tram looks like running on a waterdown rollercoaster track at some places.
@@davidpelc I do spend some time on OpenTopoMap and I do know that the Check Republic is mostly hilly and mountainous around the borders... but how hilly Prague is I don't know, I've never been there. Also, they call Lisbon "the city of the 7 hills" but it's still relatively flat for me! I guess that when you spend a few years living in the Alps everything else looks too flat!!
Unfortunately, none of the cities I have lived in or continue to live in offer a tram service. I’ll just say that each tram in this clip has its own charm, its own make, its own characteristics. One thing I like about most trams is that they are newly designed and thus designed to be environmentally friendly-a big plus for twenty-first-century transit. The other thing that amazed me was the tram livery (I’m a big fan of warm colours such as red and yellow; I like seeing them combined with cooler colours such as blue, or even bright colours such as white). Many thanks for sharing this video with us. (-:
@@dakampi8198 For example, there are 250 new Skoda 15T trams in Prague, which all are not older than 5 years. They are completly low-floor. Unfortunately, not even one was taken in this vid. And this type is not one low-floor type in Prague. There are T3R.PLF, 14T, KT8D5.RN2P too. More than 70% of journeys are done by low-floor vehicles in Prague.
Warsaw has approx. 35 lines, comparable to Prague,though the hill routes make Prague and Lisbon my favourites. Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam are great too
Warsaw has 26 tram lines (at weekends only 25 + tourist line operated by vintage trams), but it can use 33 tram loops. Theoretically, it may even have more than 528 tram lines, because you can travel from loop to loop along different routes. The city has 518 square kilometers, of which over 300 kilometers. sq. is closer than 1000 meters (less than 15 minutes walk) to the tram stop. Waiting for the tram is about 5 minutes during rush hours (if you use the schedule, it is shorter or longer if you like to have a spare) and up to 15 minutes in the early morning and late evening. Departing from any stop you can take the tram with at most one change to almost all other stops. Trams run from 4 am to 11 am. Trams have separate tracks and are unlikely to be stuck in traffic jams, so the longest journey from loop to loop should not take longer than 40 minutes.
I live in Zagreb. I really love the Sarajevo trams because they have a lot of diversity. Zagreb also has a decent amount of tram diversity, it's a shame only one model was shown here.
Having visited many of these cities, I’d say my personal favourite is Warsaw. It’s cheap, frequent, reliable and historic along with it going everywhere you need.
Munich / Bavaria also has an old and important tram system. The tram line was founded in 1876 - electrified between 1895 and 1918, once had a length of 134 km (before the construction of the subway) ... today it is 85 km with up to 126 trams and a total of 122 million passengers annually.
@@vitcenek8611 Souhlasím. tramvaje 15T tam vůbec nejsou. Možná je to ale dobře, protože to jsou šunty, i když vypadají moderně. I agree. 15T trams are not there at all. Maybe it's good because they're bad, even if they look modern.
By the early 1900s, most big and medium-sized US cities had streetcar systems as well, some of which were very comprehensive. But the USA soon had the bad luck (in the long run) to have become the country with the highest number of motor vehicles, which in turn eventually forced the shutdown of most of these systems. Most were replaced by buses, and all the infrastructure of tracks and electric lines was then torn out.
I like the Amsterdam tram because there is a conductor booth in the rear of the tram. For buying tickets and they provide tourism information with folders in different languages. Also with the differents camera's, the rear conductor can overview the whole tram, he will make an announcement who doesn't pay or make sure that the passengers keep the tram clean.
I think Switzerland on it's own deserves all kinds of public transport awards and prizes. I traveled there by public transport, all over the country and in cities. Costly, but you get what you pay for. A LOT.
@@danielholowaty2648 Rohadt sok, BKK a megrendelő, aki csengeti a zenét, a BKV pedig a villamosok tulajdonosa, aki húzza a zenét. Gondolom, érzékelhető a különbség, ha nem, akkor komoly problémák vannak nálad...
@@danielholowaty2648 Én nem sértegettelek, csak finoman rámutattam, miszerint erős kihívásokkal küszködsz a Magyar nyelv területén. Ha nem tudsz (rendesen) Magyarul, akkor nem biztos, hogy irkálni kéne. Én sem tudok Olaszul, ergo nem kommentelek Olasz youtube anyagokhoz.
After seeing this I understand why people from Europe take so much pride in their tram ( light rail/ streetcar) systems when comparing them to the north American equivalents in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Not only have they been doing it longer than alot of places in North America, but tbh, you can make the argument they do it better. And as a American, I have no problem admitting that.
Stockholm trams are also expanding first section for a whole new tram line will open next year it will use most of the all ready built tram line 22's track, one of the new tram stops are Bromma Airport. That new team lines all three sections will be all completed and opened 2023
Vienna, Milano, Lisbon, Rome and Prague. As for Lisbon, you only shewed the classic two axle trams. Lisbon has also modern articulated trams. You didn't show the other two Portuguese tram systems: Oporto with classic and modern trams (light rail) and Almada with modern Combino trams, in a modern system with three routes, opened in 2007.
In Europe I've only been to Dublin and that system was a great way to get around I can only compare it to the T in Boston Portland OR, Tampa FL and everything in San Francisco.
But Dublin' s LUAS currently only has 2 lines: the Red (east- west) and the Green (north- south). They cross near the famous O Connell St in central Dublin. More lines and extensions to the existing 2, are being considered. That includes one to Dublin Airport, currently one of the few European Capitals with no rail link at all!!
Munich also has an excellent tram network covering several suburbs and going right into one of the central pedestrian streets. Very well maintained old and very modern new rolling stock - whenever in Munich, I try to use the tram rather than the underground - and that's a high benchmark because their underground is excellent, too!!
at the same point Munich tram has great coverage from west via downtown to the east of the city, however large parts of the north and south of the city are completly left out in the network; Plans of a far more wide-spread systems existed a century ago already, but most of it never got realized, and some parts which were built until like half a century ago, they are out of service and built back already
много и красивых и оригинальных образцов этого вида транспорта. из того что я видел больше всего понравился трамвай по внешнему виду лондонский и мадридский, а по раскраске таллинский и венский
For sure Prague has the most beautiful tram network in the world. Probably Berlin is the best well mentained, but not very nice or very popular. I would say Wien by taking all aspects in consideration is the best. By the way, I can only laugh when I hear proposals like Stockolm, Rome or Lisboa. Do you call those tram networks? I call them heritage lines, because they are insignificantly small.
Actually Berlin’s Trams were very popular before the Berlin Wall was build, after that all tram lines in the west sector had been deconstructed. In the East they where the focus even prior the Metros. Now we are slowly rebuilding the network in the west, but they are actually very popular, like all the public transportation 😀.
Paris' "network" is actually also far from being a network. It's a number of lines scattered through the Paris area, as most lines are not connected together (for now) and are only connected to metro or train/RER stations.
Not a capital, but Manchester. Maybe not for urban transport, but transport to/from the satellite towns around it definitely. All these areas have shitty, infrequent, and late or even nonexistent train connections, and this was such a breath of fresh air.
@Goldmund they used a different way to count those Kilometers for Bucharest though, maybe total track length? Because the biggest tram network in the world is Melbourne at around 250 km length.
SXFlyer Well, Bucharest has tram tracks all across the city, reaching some of the outskirts (suburban area). The city itself has 35-40 km from the most western point to the most eastern and around 45+ km from the most northern to the south. For that matter, it is a little bigger than Paris by sheer size alone, but only if you do not count anything outside of the parisian circular highway which borders the city. The only problem in Bucharest are the trains which are old and outdated.
@Iuliu Antonio Filip 332 km is the total route length, which means all tram lines added together, so routes with multiple lines are counted multiple times. The total network length is “only” 145 km, which is still very impressive, but not as much as stated. Melbourne has the biggest network in the world with 250 km, followed by St. Petersburg and Berlin. The size of the network in Bucharest is similar to the one in Prague, and Prague has trams literally everywhere as well. Btw Melbourne is way bigger than Bucharest, as Melbourne has a population of 5 million people and from the south to the north end it extends to a massive 100 km!!
Berlin. I was sitting in a pub and watched a tram pass with "I'M ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELLESDORF" - one of the best corporate slogans ever to raise awareness.
So basically, the only European capital city (outside the microstates Vatican City, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) is Valletta. Granted, I once walked the circumference of Valletta in about an hour and a half, so perhaps it would be a bit excessive.
Amsterdan, Berlin are the best, followed by Vienna, Prague, Brussels and Warsaw, from my experience. Other than that (always based on my experiences) Riga's is very extensive but trains are mostly old, Athens' is useless save for the coastal line, Paris' isn't a network on its own but more like a feeder network to the metro and RER, Kiev's is almost in ruins save for fast tram (I used it last summer), Rome's is in bad shape as well.
I live in Berlin and it's sad how small the tram network is right now. A 100 years ago (in 1929 to be specific) it had a network length of 634 km and operated on 93 lines. And apparently the ridership in the year 1929 was 929 million people! A lot more than today and also a lot more than many other European tram systems. But most of it got destroyed in the war and after that the rest was closed down by politicians to make space for cars which were thought to be the future of urban transportation back then. Only parts of the tram network in east Berlin were kept under operation through all the years. Since the '90s the tram network of Berlin is expanded again. A few areas in former west Berlin have tram stations again and the plans are ambitious. But at just under 200 km right now, we are still kilometers (literally) away from the former size of the system.
this video has a small mistake : Lisbon has his own tram system , but , in greater lisbon exists another tram system in Almada called MTS and the lisbon's tram network is owned by the bus network
@@Devvitc Dear Weutonic, at least I am not an idiot like you are ok. Everything in this life has its price and at least everyone in this life thinks and reflects. In Europe, in any country of the EU, in any region or canton or whatever, in any corner or city of the European Continent everything has its price.
@@Devvitc If I say that in Luxembourg public transport is free, of course it is and you can investigate it, but I say that free things are all over Europe, you are wrong and it is not good to think that people are stupid because they believe that in Europe everything is free, or because they are better developed than here in Mexico-America Europe is very big and excellent but it does not mean that in other countries they think that Europe lives like kings.
@@nareshgc8354 Someone who starts a argumentation with an insult does usually not have any idea wha the is talking about. Same applies to you. Your whole respons doesn´t make any sense because either your "logic" or you´r horrible english. You are not a European, like you said. So how can you even think you could judge how the life here in Europe realy is?! I would advise you to "investigate" a littel bit more about you´r knowledge of living in Europe and what it takes to be a respectable European citizen.
I think in Germany clearly Karlsrube because the cabs run on standard width rails, can switch to 16 kV too. One line has 60 or 100 km total length if I’m not mistaken.
I think that to say whitch is the best system we must do a comparison between total number of tram km/total population (mil). It will give as something more objective
In 80th Saints Petersburg tram system was one of the best, you can go almost everywhere by tram. But in 90th lot's of railway was destroyed and metro system can't be use just like tram. Actually in USSR tram system was always supported.
Hello Tim, at first after some delay my yery congrats to your 10 year channel jubilee and for this very good and well researched Video conscerning the tram system in the european capitals. 👍👍👍 That is a big challenge to make a video of so much cities, many of them you took on cam yourself others shown in videos cited by name of the producer. And of course it's impossible to show all details of each tram system with all their specialities, their dates and their advantages and also their defects, especially all that exactly up to date of the present time. So don't worry about the comments about having shown not actual video material in some cities. --- And now my comment to the tram systems. I love all cities with tram- and/or with metro-systems. Not considering the view of the railway- or tram-lover but to take the view of a user, i think a transport system has to be measured with all his parts, like suburb railways, Metro, Tramways , Trolleybusses, Busses or other public transport like ferries or boats, funiculars and cableways, and then the people, who live there and use this complex system, have to decide if it's a good solution for the city or not. --- Bye the way I love these complex public transports in Berlin, Vienna, Zürich, Prague, London, Paris, Budapest and many more, and I don't want to specify which of all could be the best. 🙂 -- And last comment to the Berlin (my capital 😁) -- The tram of West Berlin was completely closed until 1967 and also the suburban railway net lines (S-Bahn) in West Berlin totally went down until Zero, because of its ownership in hands of the former German Democratic Republic. So the growing U-Bahn-Net (Metro) and Busses in W-Berlin took over all public transports. In East Berlin the system of U-Bahn had only a few lines. So the S-Bahn and the Straßenbahn (Tram) (plus Busses) had to manage all transport services. So the tram system there is big and in good conditions. --- And I really would love to have more new tram-lines in West Berlin too (or extensions from east to west). As well I would love new Metro lines (or extensions) in the east.
I'd definitely go for Bucharest. I live there, and the tram system is 143km, not 326, but it still takes you almost everywhere in the city. We also have the light metro lines (like 41 and 1) which go in almost every important part of the city.
Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland. Is Scotland a country? No, and yes. We have a tiny, but rather new tramway. 1 line, 14km, 16 stops, 27 trams. Since 2014. Though, originally a larger network existed 1871-1956.
Well I wouldnt agree on the clean part, considering it has a lot of marker marks and usually people crave their name in the plastic of the interior or the glass of the tram, the only reason the TMK2200 (the new tram) is good because its made here in Croatia by Končar and it is good looking, but I ride in it almost every day and it is way too noisy and it is very unsefe in case of a car crash...
And whoever made the seating space didnt think about it very much because there is way more room for more seats then only 46 seats for a 32 meter ling tram
@@TheEnerger it's not safe????well we didn't have any death by tram for many many years..... and tram is fine......you're looking for little things in a pile of garbage
BRUSSELS, because of the "attempt" of comparison below : IMO, and according to what is ONLY shown in the video, for the 29 capitals it's a combination of : 1) the network length, linked to the number of lines : MOS = 416 km !! ; BUC 332 ! ; BERL 193 ; VIEN 176,9 ; BUD 156,85 ; SOF 154 ; PRA 142,4 ; BRU 141,1 ; KIE 139,9 ; WAR 138, OSL 131,4 ; MIN 123,12 ; PAR 104,7 ; AMS 80,5 // LIS 76 ; RIG 62,8 ; ZAG 54,2 ; BEL 43,5 ; DUB 42,1 ; BRA 39,6 ; HEL 39 ; ROM 36 ; BERN 33,4 ; ATH 32,4 ; STO 29,3 ; LON 28 ; MAD 27,8 ; SAR 22,9 ; TAL 19,7) ; 2) the capacity = length/number of wagons : very variable... and depending of modernity (then with disabled accessibility) : 7 Wagons : BERN***, including 2 smaller ones = ** (Only found) ; PAR** (O) ; BERL******* (Not Only) ; 6 Wagons : BUD (NO) ; 5 Wagons : AMS* (O) ; ATH* (O) ; BRU* (O) ; MAD* (O) ; DUB** (O) ; HEL (NO) ; VIE (NO) ; BEL* (NO) ; LON* (NO) ; SOF* (NO) ; PRA* (NO) ; BRA** (NO) ; ROM** (NO) ; ZAG** (NO) // 3 Wagons : STO, Large = L (O) ; TAL L (O) ; WAR* (O) ; RIG L (NO) ; SAR L (NO) ; BUC (NO) ; MOS L* (NO) ; OSL (NO) ; KIE* (NO) ; 1 Wagon : MIN L (O) ; LIS (O) ; Since I eliminate under 5 wagons (even if, because of their networks length, that's difficult for Moscow with its older trams of 2 large wagons +1 small and Bucharest. Someone says too that the trams of Warsaw are not updated and another that it lacks Luxembourg's tram of 5,1 km) : - Not Only modern trams : 1) BERLIN (7 small Wagons, 197 km) ; 2) Budapest (6 W, 156,85 km) ; 3) Vienna (5 W, 176,9 km) ; 4) Sofia (5 W, 154 km) ; 5) Prague (5 W, 142,4 km) ; - Only modern trams : 1) BRUSSELS (5 W, 141,1 km) ; 2) Paris (7 W, 104,7 km) ; 3) Amsterdam (5 W, 80,5 km) ; 5) Bern (7 W, 33,4 km) ; Interesting how it splits eastern Europe, which apparently never abandonned trams, continued to enlarge its networks and so keeps older vehicules, appreciated by some in the cities old centers, and western Europe which sometimes did after WWII, only to resume their use rather recently but with modern trams only ! So my "rational (cartesian ;+)" choice is BRUSSELS, because despite -56 km (-1/4), the proportion of modern trams is superior to Berlin and gives a better "general impression" ! PS : I'm French, not Belgian ;+) !
Lisbon has the coolest old school trams. The electricos are proper hill climbers. Unfotunately, they ripped out most of the old lines in the city. Even so, #28 is probably the best, most scenic line on the planet. 🇵🇹
Saint Petersburg was called a Tram Capital of the world. In 80-s it had the biggest tram system ever (over 600km). Now it is dramatically reduced but why isn't it shown here?
Want to see such modern, less sound polluting and vibration less modern articulated trams in my city Kolkata. I wish I could see the development before I die...!!!
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1:28 Athens, Greece
2:32 Belgrade, Serbia
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4:31 Bern, Switzerland
5:19 Bratislava, Slovakia
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11:39 Kiev, Ukraine
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13:19 London, England
14:27 Madrid, Spain
15:17 Minsk, Belarus
16:02 Moscow, Russia
17:10 Oslo, Norway
18:19 Paris, France
19:28 Prague, Czechia
20:41 Riga, Latvia
21:43 Rome, Italy
22:49 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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24:22 Stockholm, Sweden
25:40 Tallinn, Estonia
26:37 Vienna, Austria
27:52 Warsaw, Poland
28:30 Zagreb, Croatia
Thanks! Such a time saver.
@Timosha21 Please add this list to the info below the video. This should allow us to skip to the point in the video even more easily
In the USA we used to have an extensive and very effective tram system both in Chicago and in the first city to its north Evanston, both in Illinois. But our auto industry lobbied to have them torn up literally to _force_ people in the USA to buy more cars (although it was framed as “making more room for cars, should people happen to want to buy them”), and you can still find the old tracks here and there poking through where the asphalt has worn, often along what remain major arteries for travel, albeit now clogged by automobile traffic. What a dreadful shame.
Budapest , Hungary
Bydgoszcz has the best system :)
Zagreb, Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Stockholm are my favourite.
I find the Stockholm tram system very often over crowed and not on time. I used to take the tram to school, until last year, and it was expected that the trains would run 15-30 min over time. Normally in the late nights when no-one is riding it, it takes about 15-20 min fastest to get from Årstaberg to Sickla Kaj. But in the mornings and on afternoon the ride becomes up to 40 min and some cases even more. And also is very over crowded. The SL in my opinion itself is a very bad company and could do better if it was pushed harder, it's busses are good but not satisfactory, there's always something wrong or broken with everything, the trains, the trams the busses. Only thing that works really properly for them is the small boat line in the middle of Stockholm. I prefer the Tallinn's tram system over the one of Stockholm's, and I so love Estonian busses, the quality is just different. Haven't been to Zagerb, Prague, Budapest or Vienna though, should go visit them one day.
Living in a city which has no trams, I find any city with trams is 'the best'.
indeed
I grew up in Mannheim, Germany. I could get anywhere I needed to go in the city as well as neighboring cities (even in other states!) by riding the Straßenbahn or OEG trams. I never needed a car, infact no one in my immediate family owned a car until the 1980s. Everyone just rode bikes or trams. If you missed one, there would be another one soon. Mannheim's tram system was connected with Ludwigshafen on the other side of the Rhine river as well as the cities of Heidelberg, Weinheim, Heddesheim, Viernheim and Seckenheim. It was awesome and I really miss not having a light rail system where I live now in Texas. Our bus system sort of sucks, I don't even know where the closest stop would be, I have never seen a marked stop for the buses.
@@Siggy4844 based and trampilled
@@Siggy4844 Unfortunately the tram from Eppelheim to Schwetzingen will not be reinstalled anytime soon. Same goes for the Tram to Nußloch. Greetings from Dossenheim.
@@insatsuki_no_koshou When I was younger I took many bicycle rides from MA-Wallstadt to Dossenheim.
Prague, Vienna Zagreb and Warsaw - the first two ones are very extensive and dense in the city centre (but I think Prague is more utilized due to smaller metro and train system), Zagreb has an amazing number of daily passengers (almost equal to the city citizens number) while Warsaw is I think one of the best maintained tramway system - also it has to be noted that the system was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in late 40's and 50's in a different shape and those of the tracks which stayed had their gauge changed from 1525 mm to 1435 mm. Bucharest tram network is basically dying from poor maintenance (although impressively big), while Paris and Berlin have interesting suburban systems, but they are too fragmented - and Bern is a good one but the city is much smaller than most European capitals.
I believe Paris canceled trams, but decided to bring it back. So it is impressive, as they are one of the few who built large system in 80s, other cities had them since horse pulled trams.
@@Pyrochemik007 that is correct, and in that Paris succeeded, but admittedly Ile-de-France tram is quite faulty in how most of the lines are disconnected from each other.
@@Wielkobabita Arent they connected through metro?
@@Pyrochemik007 they are, but metro won't send a replacement tram if one is broken and trams en route cannot enter metro tunnels if for example there was a crash on its route, so when the routes aren't connected to each other, they are very prone to accidents.
Budapest, Hungary has the best tram system in the world. It has over 30 lines including Line 2, the most beautiful tram line in the world, Line 1 one of the longest tram lines in Europe and Lines 4/6 which are the busiest in the world! We even have the longest trams in the world! They are CAF Urbos 3 come in 3,5 and 9 cars long! An honorable mention goes to Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna and Zurich (Even though not the capitol) equally impressive systems!
Daniel K I live in Pécs Hungary
I actually traveled on the Caf s and it is truly the longest Tram car but Budapest also has more car types Than what the video shows
@@Valaki415 I haven't been to Hungary in 3 years so it's been a while and want to ride around on the BKK. They've made a lot of improvements and progress on the past few years.
Budapest also hires the team of the most aggressive ticket inspectors in Europe
@Leonard Andrei I haven't looked too close into Romanian tram systems but I do like them! They are vary similar to the ones in Hungary! In term of Budapest vs. Bucharest, both capitals have an immense network the is the backbone of the public transport system as a whole. I'd love to go and travel on the Romanian transport one day!
Vienna is magnificent. And Budapest, Prague, Warsaw. But there are also... Brno, Zurich, Krakow.
Of the ones I've ridden on, Vienna and Prague are a close 1 and 2. The most fun one is Lisbon's trolleys.
Yeah...Prague and Vienna system is very simmilar according to my experience. I am from Prague and Viena public transport looks really familiar to me.
European capitals are mostly flat, whereas Lisbon is known as "the city of the 7 hills", and the tram looks like running on a waterdown rollercoaster track at some places.
@@davidpelc pravda bro
@@PrimiusLovin you will be maybe surprised, but Prague is also located on 7 hills 😉
@@davidpelc I do spend some time on OpenTopoMap and I do know that the Check Republic is mostly hilly and mountainous around the borders... but how hilly Prague is I don't know, I've never been there.
Also, they call Lisbon "the city of the 7 hills" but it's still relatively flat for me!
I guess that when you spend a few years living in the Alps everything else looks too flat!!
Unfortunately, none of the cities I have lived in or continue to live in offer a tram service. I’ll just say that each tram in this clip has its own charm, its own make, its own characteristics. One thing I like about most trams is that they are newly designed and thus designed to be environmentally friendly-a big plus for twenty-first-century transit. The other thing that amazed me was the tram livery (I’m a big fan of warm colours such as red and yellow; I like seeing them combined with cooler colours such as blue, or even bright colours such as white).
Many thanks for sharing this video with us. (-:
Zagreb, Lisbon and Prague! ❤️
I am from Prague
Winner: Prague.
Beautiful Trams, Nice lines. Birthplace of the Tatras.
Or maybe a MetroTram
@@dakampi8198 For example, there are 250 new Skoda 15T trams in Prague, which all are not older than 5 years. They are completly low-floor. Unfortunately, not even one was taken in this vid. And this type is not one low-floor type in Prague. There are T3R.PLF, 14T, KT8D5.RN2P too.
More than 70% of journeys are done by low-floor vehicles in Prague.
CKD Tatra KT4
Tatras? Where are you from?
@@zinzi4831 im Form erfurt/Germany. And Tatras are my favourite trams.
Prague, Helsinki and Lisbon are my favs.
Happy 2021 everyone!
Not a capital city either, but the innovative network in (and far beyond) Karlsruhe is my favourite.
von Karlsruhe nach Kandel .
Von Karlsruhe nach Achern
Warsaw has approx. 35 lines, comparable to Prague,though the hill routes make Prague and Lisbon my favourites. Vienna, Berlin and Amsterdam are great too
Warsaw has 26 tram lines (at weekends only 25 + tourist line operated by vintage trams), but it can use 33 tram loops. Theoretically, it may even have more than 528 tram lines, because you can travel from loop to loop along different routes. The city has 518 square kilometers, of which over 300 kilometers. sq. is closer than 1000 meters (less than 15 minutes walk) to the tram stop. Waiting for the tram is about 5 minutes during rush hours (if you use the schedule, it is shorter or longer if you like to have a spare) and up to 15 minutes in the early morning and late evening. Departing from any stop you can take the tram with at most one change to almost all other stops. Trams run from 4 am to 11 am. Trams have separate tracks and are unlikely to be stuck in traffic jams, so the longest journey from loop to loop should not take longer than 40 minutes.
The best tram in Budapest: 4-6
The best land in romania
Transylvania
which you will never get
Prague, Brussels and Stockholm are my favorites:)
I live in Zagreb. I really love the Sarajevo trams because they have a lot of diversity. Zagreb also has a decent amount of tram diversity, it's a shame only one model was shown here.
Fukso servantska.
At 24/7 365 days for 32CZK ( les than €1.5) for up to 1.5 travel hours on any public transport within the metropole - not many can beat Prague ❤️❤️❤️
Having visited many of these cities, I’d say my personal favourite is Warsaw. It’s cheap, frequent, reliable and historic along with it going everywhere you need.
1. Budapest - because of the nostalgic old trainsets
2. Vienna
3. Zagreb
The BKK also has nostalgia trains on sundays that you can ride /the Care are from the 30s
We have not just old trams. We have some from The 60's but we also have newers from 2016
Munich / Bavaria also has an old and important tram system. The tram line was founded in 1876 - electrified between 1895 and 1918, once had a length of 134 km (before the construction of the subway) ... today it is 85 km with up to 126 trams and a total of 122 million passengers annually.
however it's not relevant in a video about tram systems in capital cities
Zagreb Croatia, definitely :)
in Warsaw aren't old trams, this is video from 2010
No, old trams from the video are still in service (I visited Warsaw in November 2018), but running fast and effective like the new ones.
@@Starman239 Maybe, but now in Warsaw are mostly new ones, rarely old ones.
In Prague same! This video was more than 10 years old, now are most of the trams low floor.
@@vitcenek8611 Souhlasím. tramvaje 15T tam vůbec nejsou. Možná je to ale dobře, protože to jsou šunty, i když vypadají moderně.
I agree. 15T trams are not there at all. Maybe it's good because they're bad, even if they look modern.
By the early 1900s, most big and medium-sized US cities had streetcar systems as well, some of which were very comprehensive. But the USA soon had the bad luck (in the long run) to have become the country with the highest number of motor vehicles, which in turn eventually forced the shutdown of most of these systems. Most were replaced by buses, and all the infrastructure of tracks and electric lines was then torn out.
All Winners! :)
west city looooost ;)
Yep
ugliest: Brussels, but winner too
Milan, Italy.
13:22 is the best london trams tfl I live in England and they do too :)
The data given is not uniform and thus not informative, lot of videos had essential data missing.
I like the Amsterdam tram because there is a conductor booth in the rear of the tram. For buying tickets and they provide tourism information with folders in different languages. Also with the differents camera's, the rear conductor can overview the whole tram, he will make an announcement who doesn't pay or make sure that the passengers keep the tram clean.
I think Switzerland on it's own deserves all kinds of public transport awards and prizes. I traveled there by public transport, all over the country and in cities. Costly, but you get what you pay for. A LOT.
My favs: Vienna, Lisbon and Sofia.
Lisbon's old trams are very iconic, but Vienna and Sofia are better!
@@nacht98 not if you need to climb a hill!
In Budapest the owner is BKV not BKK. BKK only coordinates ticket sales, and timetables.
Mi a különbség. Csak ennyi.
Nem élek Pesten, még Magyarban sem de mi a különbség a kettõk között
@@danielholowaty2648 Rohadt sok, BKK a megrendelő, aki csengeti a zenét, a BKV pedig a villamosok tulajdonosa, aki húzza a zenét. Gondolom, érzékelhető a különbség, ha nem, akkor komoly problémák vannak nálad...
@@georgemiki71 Ausztriában élek... Sose tanultam rendesen a magyar nyelvet. Kérem, ne sértgessen.
@@danielholowaty2648 Én nem sértegettelek, csak finoman rámutattam, miszerint erős kihívásokkal küszködsz a Magyar nyelv területén. Ha nem tudsz (rendesen) Magyarul, akkor nem biztos, hogy irkálni kéne. Én sem tudok Olaszul, ergo nem kommentelek Olasz youtube anyagokhoz.
@@georgemiki71 Ez egy csodálatos hozzászólás volt.
DEFINITELY PRAGUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
After seeing this I understand why people from Europe take so much pride in their tram ( light rail/ streetcar) systems when comparing them to the north American equivalents in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Not only have they been doing it longer than alot of places in North America, but tbh, you can make the argument they do it better. And as a American, I have no problem admitting that.
Zagreb has one of the best tram sistems
1. BEAUTIFUL CITY OF ROMA!!! ( ITALY!!! )
2. Lissabon old, very romantic and beautiful Tram!!!
Lissabon are adding new trams to not steep areas of the citty, but the iconic old ones are the most beautiful.
Rome is a beautiful city but it’s tram network is very scarce
Berlin because its so huge and still expanding!
the lengths of the tram systems are wrong in this video
Stockholm trams are also expanding first section for a whole new tram line will open next year it will use most of the all ready built tram line 22's track, one of the new tram stops are Bromma Airport. That new team lines all three sections will be all completed and opened 2023
@blista2 They aren't wrong
Yes, but the west side of Berlin still isn't operated by trams :(
4ever242 that’s no true, it has been expanded to the West
Vienna, Milano, Lisbon, Rome and Prague. As for Lisbon, you only shewed the classic two axle trams. Lisbon has also modern articulated trams. You didn't show the other two Portuguese tram systems: Oporto with classic and modern trams (light rail) and Almada with modern Combino trams, in a modern system with three routes, opened in 2007.
In Europe I've only been to Dublin and that system was a great way to get around I can only compare it to the T in Boston Portland OR, Tampa FL and everything in San Francisco.
But Dublin' s LUAS currently only has 2 lines: the Red (east- west) and the Green (north- south). They cross near the famous O Connell St in central Dublin. More lines and extensions to the existing 2, are being considered. That includes one to Dublin Airport, currently one of the few European Capitals with no rail link at all!!
Berlin and Prague
Munich also has an excellent tram network covering several suburbs and going right into one of the central pedestrian streets. Very well maintained old and very modern new rolling stock - whenever in Munich, I try to use the tram rather than the underground - and that's a high benchmark because their underground is excellent, too!!
at the same point Munich tram has great coverage from west via downtown to the east of the city, however large parts of the north and south of the city are completly left out in the network; Plans of a far more wide-spread systems existed a century ago already, but most of it never got realized, and some parts which were built until like half a century ago, they are out of service and built back already
Vienna has the most beautiful Trams like E1 E2 and ULF
And flexity
много и красивых и оригинальных образцов этого вида транспорта. из того что я видел больше всего понравился трамвай по внешнему виду лондонский и мадридский, а по раскраске таллинский и венский
For sure Prague has the most beautiful tram network in the world. Probably Berlin is the best well mentained, but not very nice or very popular. I would say Wien by taking all aspects in consideration is the best. By the way, I can only laugh when I hear proposals like Stockolm, Rome or Lisboa. Do you call those tram networks? I call them heritage lines, because they are insignificantly small.
Exactly..thanks from Prague :)
Actually Berlin’s Trams were very popular before the Berlin Wall was build, after that all tram lines in the west sector had been deconstructed. In the East they where the focus even prior the Metros. Now we are slowly rebuilding the network in the west, but they are actually very popular, like all the public transportation 😀.
Paris' "network" is actually also far from being a network. It's a number of lines scattered through the Paris area, as most lines are not connected together (for now) and are only connected to metro or train/RER stations.
@@peterw.8434 abee s bahn und u bahn wird halt öfters benutzt
Not a capital, but Manchester. Maybe not for urban transport, but transport to/from the satellite towns around it definitely. All these areas have shitty, infrequent, and late or even nonexistent train connections, and this was such a breath of fresh air.
In Budapest we have Combino (Second longest tram), CAF Urbos (longest tram in the world), Tatra T5C5K, Ganz and TW6000. Aand oc some nostalgic tram.
Pražské tramvaje jsou nejlepší na světě!!!
Souhlasím!)
Nemáme také dobrý tramvaje u nas v Bělorusku
Trams in Torino and Milano are also historic and good(Rome has less trams i guess due to so much of its historic places)
Helsinki, Prag, Berlin ....Bucharest( 332km!)
@Goldmund they used a different way to count those Kilometers for Bucharest though, maybe total track length? Because the biggest tram network in the world is Melbourne at around 250 km length.
SXFlyer Well, Bucharest has tram tracks all across the city, reaching some of the outskirts (suburban area). The city itself has 35-40 km from the most western point to the most eastern and around 45+ km from the most northern to the south. For that matter, it is a little bigger than Paris by sheer size alone, but only if you do not count anything outside of the parisian circular highway which borders the city. The only problem in Bucharest are the trains which are old and outdated.
@Iuliu Antonio Filip 332 km is the total route length, which means all tram lines added together, so routes with multiple lines are counted multiple times. The total network length is “only” 145 km, which is still very impressive, but not as much as stated. Melbourne has the biggest network in the world with 250 km, followed by St. Petersburg and Berlin.
The size of the network in Bucharest is similar to the one in Prague, and Prague has trams literally everywhere as well.
Btw Melbourne is way bigger than Bucharest, as Melbourne has a population of 5 million people and from the south to the north end it extends to a massive 100 km!!
Helsinki and Lisbon have the prettiest trams!!
Im moving to lisbon in 2 weeks and I hope I can get around nicely with public transport :)
16:33 In Khabarovsk(Far East of Russia) , the same trams 🥰
In Bratislava is not operating "Mestska hromadna doprava" but Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB)
Praha, be sure, (Prague), Praha (+ 5 tram systems
and 13 trolleybus systems in CZ as well..:-)) )
Czech republic has 7 tram systems
@@tomasskocek8196 Oh, I see... Thanks...
jep
@Paweł no no no bad
@Paweł shut
Berlin. I was sitting in a pub and watched a tram pass with "I'M ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELLESDORF" - one of the best corporate slogans ever to raise awareness.
Luxembourg City has a tram too
So basically, the only European capital city (outside the microstates Vatican City, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Andorra) is Valletta. Granted, I once walked the circumference of Valletta in about an hour and a half, so perhaps it would be a bit excessive.
Amsterdan, Berlin are the best, followed by Vienna, Prague, Brussels and Warsaw, from my experience. Other than that (always based on my experiences) Riga's is very extensive but trains are mostly old, Athens' is useless save for the coastal line, Paris' isn't a network on its own but more like a feeder network to the metro and RER, Kiev's is almost in ruins save for fast tram (I used it last summer), Rome's is in bad shape as well.
I live in Berlin and it's sad how small the tram network is right now. A 100 years ago (in 1929 to be specific) it had a network length of 634 km and operated on 93 lines. And apparently the ridership in the year 1929 was 929 million people! A lot more than today and also a lot more than many other European tram systems.
But most of it got destroyed in the war and after that the rest was closed down by politicians to make space for cars which were thought to be the future of urban transportation back then. Only parts of the tram network in east Berlin were kept under operation through all the years. Since the '90s the tram network of Berlin is expanded again. A few areas in former west Berlin have tram stations again and the plans are ambitious. But at just under 200 km right now, we are still kilometers (literally) away from the former size of the system.
Prague, Vienna
this video has a small mistake : Lisbon has his own tram system , but , in greater lisbon exists another tram system in Almada called MTS and the lisbon's tram network is owned by the bus network
The best tram system is that of Luxembourg for being Free Public Transporte 🇱🇺
Nothing is free, citizens of Luxembourg pays for it in taxes.
________________________________________ ye its allways funny when people think in europe is something "for free".
@@Devvitc Dear Weutonic, at least I am not an idiot like you are ok. Everything in this life has its price and at least everyone in this life thinks and reflects. In Europe, in any country of the EU, in any region or canton or whatever, in any corner or city of the European Continent everything has its price.
@@Devvitc If I say that in Luxembourg public transport is free, of course it is and you can investigate it, but I say that free things are all over Europe, you are wrong and it is not good to think that people are stupid because they believe that in Europe everything is free, or because they are better developed than here in Mexico-America Europe is very big and excellent but it does not mean that in other countries they think that Europe lives like kings.
@@nareshgc8354 Someone who starts a argumentation with an insult does usually not have any idea wha the is talking about.
Same applies to you. Your whole respons doesn´t make any sense because either your "logic" or you´r horrible english. You are not a European, like you said. So how can you even think you could judge how the life here in Europe realy is?! I would advise you to
"investigate" a littel bit more about you´r knowledge of living in Europe and what it takes to be a respectable European citizen.
Vienna in Austria have the best Tramway in the World.
Prague
Yes, Prague is very nice :)
I really really really want to see Pragues tram!! but I d rather not be in a accident
Fantastic Video, bravo thank you sooo much !11
My Government in Kenya when are we going to have a Tram in Our County 😭
Maybe China or some rich country like Dubai will invest in your capital city, I hope
When you can eradicate corruption
Prague!
You forgot Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. :c
Wonderful video though!
Not an independent country
SuperAngelofglory Edinburgh is a capital city in Europe though.
@@JesterFoxxx Not really. Richard Osman would not accept that answer.
@@nelsonricardo3729 Richard Osman can deny or accept whatever answer he wants. Edinburgh is one of the capital cities of Europe, and that's fact.
@@JesterFoxxx Sigh... Ssssshhhh. You'll upset your masters in London.
Anywhere is good as long as you are on holiday
Vienna, Sofia, Warsaw and Amsterdam have some of the longest lines so they're perhaps the ones that proficiently service the highest number of people
Lisbon Streetcars are my favorite here.
I learned that there is a city in swizzerland called Wankdorf. I wonder what their speciality is.
It's the name of the Bern footbally stadium. Their home team is called "Young Boys". :-)
Soviets had always stressed on public transport. Most ex soviet cities has tramline over hundred kilometres with Moscow being the highest, 416 km.
Vienna, i live there. It´s beatuiflul
I think in Germany clearly Karlsrube because the cabs run on standard width rails, can switch to 16 kV too. One line has 60 or 100 km total length if I’m not mistaken.
I think that to say whitch is the best system we must do a comparison between total number of tram km/total population (mil). It will give as something more objective
Warsaw, Prague, Vienna - those are representing a real system of city transport (exlouding metro systems). Rest of them are only for the show.
I would include budapest to your list
In 80th Saints Petersburg tram system was one of the best, you can go almost everywhere by tram. But in 90th lot's of railway was destroyed and metro system can't be use just like tram. Actually in USSR tram system was always supported.
Everywehere in Europe: trams are really fast
Budapest: trams are extremely slow due to worn down tracks and poor traffic organization
for example in Bucharest the case is much worse
Hello Tim, at first after some delay my yery congrats to your 10 year channel jubilee and for this very good and well researched Video conscerning the tram system in the european capitals. 👍👍👍
That is a big challenge to make a video of so much cities, many of them you took on cam yourself others shown in videos cited by name of the producer. And of course it's impossible to show all details of each tram system with all their specialities, their dates and their advantages and also their defects, especially all that exactly up to date of the present time. So don't worry about the comments about having shown not actual video material in some cities.
--- And now my comment to the tram systems. I love all cities with tram- and/or with metro-systems. Not considering the view of the railway- or tram-lover but to take the view of a user, i think a transport system has to be measured with all his parts, like suburb railways, Metro, Tramways , Trolleybusses, Busses or other public transport like ferries or boats, funiculars and cableways, and then the people, who live there and use this complex system, have to decide if it's a good solution for the city or not.
--- Bye the way I love these complex public transports in Berlin, Vienna, Zürich, Prague, London, Paris, Budapest and many more, and I don't want to specify which of all could be the best. 🙂
-- And last comment to the Berlin (my capital 😁) -- The tram of West Berlin was completely closed until 1967 and also the suburban railway net lines (S-Bahn) in West Berlin totally went down until Zero, because of its ownership in hands of the former German Democratic Republic. So the growing U-Bahn-Net (Metro) and Busses in W-Berlin took over all public transports. In East Berlin the system of U-Bahn had only a few lines. So the S-Bahn and the Straßenbahn (Tram) (plus Busses) had to manage all transport services. So the tram system there is big and in good conditions. --- And I really would love to have more new tram-lines in West Berlin too (or extensions from east to west). As well I would love new Metro lines (or extensions) in the east.
Please do europian capital buses
Coastliner700@Here's the winner,ruclips.net/video/DFKer-pJkmg/видео.html
I'd definitely go for Bucharest. I live there, and the tram system is 143km, not 326, but it still takes you almost everywhere in the city. We also have the light metro lines (like 41 and 1) which go in almost every important part of the city.
Ba și 32 și 10 și 21
Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland. Is Scotland a country? No, and yes. We have a tiny, but rather new tramway. 1 line, 14km, 16 stops, 27 trams. Since 2014. Though, originally a larger network existed 1871-1956.
A great variety but depending on what you are looking for, I vote for Amsterdam.
Love the way these futuristic behemoths sliver their way through town.
Warsaw....Berlin....Prague.....Zagreb
I love my zagreb tram.... It is nice, clean, new, Wi-Fi free and climate is working so it is nice ride.
Well I wouldnt agree on the clean part, considering it has a lot of marker marks and usually people crave their name in the plastic of the interior or the glass of the tram, the only reason the TMK2200 (the new tram) is good because its made here in Croatia by Končar and it is good looking, but I ride in it almost every day and it is way too noisy and it is very unsefe in case of a car crash...
And whoever made the seating space didnt think about it very much because there is way more room for more seats then only 46 seats for a 32 meter ling tram
@@TheEnerger it's not safe????well we didn't have any death by tram for many many years..... and tram is fine......you're looking for little things in a pile of garbage
BRUSSELS, because of the "attempt" of comparison below :
IMO, and according to what is ONLY shown in the video, for the 29 capitals it's a combination of :
1) the network length, linked to the number of lines :
MOS = 416 km !! ; BUC 332 ! ; BERL 193 ; VIEN 176,9 ; BUD 156,85 ; SOF 154 ; PRA 142,4 ; BRU 141,1 ; KIE 139,9 ; WAR 138, OSL 131,4 ; MIN 123,12 ; PAR 104,7 ; AMS 80,5 // LIS 76 ; RIG 62,8 ; ZAG 54,2 ; BEL 43,5 ; DUB 42,1 ; BRA 39,6 ; HEL 39 ; ROM 36 ; BERN 33,4 ; ATH 32,4 ; STO 29,3 ; LON 28 ; MAD 27,8 ; SAR 22,9 ; TAL 19,7) ;
2) the capacity = length/number of wagons : very variable... and depending of modernity (then with disabled accessibility) :
7 Wagons : BERN***, including 2 smaller ones = ** (Only found) ; PAR** (O) ; BERL******* (Not Only) ; 6 Wagons : BUD (NO) ; 5 Wagons : AMS* (O) ; ATH* (O) ; BRU* (O) ; MAD* (O) ; DUB** (O) ; HEL (NO) ; VIE (NO) ; BEL* (NO) ; LON* (NO) ; SOF* (NO) ; PRA* (NO) ; BRA** (NO) ; ROM** (NO) ; ZAG** (NO) // 3 Wagons : STO, Large = L (O) ; TAL L (O) ; WAR* (O) ; RIG L (NO) ; SAR L (NO) ; BUC (NO) ; MOS L* (NO) ; OSL (NO) ; KIE* (NO) ; 1 Wagon : MIN L (O) ; LIS (O) ;
Since I eliminate under 5 wagons (even if, because of their networks length, that's difficult for Moscow with its older trams of 2 large wagons +1 small and Bucharest. Someone says too that the trams of Warsaw are not updated and another that it lacks Luxembourg's tram of 5,1 km) :
- Not Only modern trams : 1) BERLIN (7 small Wagons, 197 km) ; 2) Budapest (6 W, 156,85 km) ; 3) Vienna (5 W, 176,9 km) ; 4) Sofia (5 W, 154 km) ; 5) Prague (5 W, 142,4 km) ;
- Only modern trams : 1) BRUSSELS (5 W, 141,1 km) ; 2) Paris (7 W, 104,7 km) ; 3) Amsterdam (5 W, 80,5 km) ; 5) Bern (7 W, 33,4 km) ;
Interesting how it splits eastern Europe, which apparently never abandonned trams, continued to enlarge its networks and so keeps older vehicules, appreciated by some in the cities old centers, and western Europe which sometimes did after WWII, only to resume their use rather recently but with modern trams only !
So my "rational (cartesian ;+)" choice is BRUSSELS, because despite -56 km (-1/4), the proportion of modern trams is superior to Berlin and gives a better "general impression" !
PS : I'm French, not Belgian ;+) !
16:11 MosgoRtrans :)
Hey, there are the same 15T trams in Prague as in Riga!
The beauty behind the Iron Curtain... Poland at least had their own Konstals.
Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Bucharest, Bratislava
Budapest, Praha, Warszawa.
All of them are very nice. And each one is unique in its beauty! ::))
Lisbon has the coolest old school trams. The electricos are proper hill climbers. Unfotunately, they ripped out most of the old lines in the city. Even so, #28 is probably the best, most scenic line on the planet. 🇵🇹
My opinion:
1. Grenoble
2. Vienna
3. Dublin
4. Zurich
5. Lisboa
6. Athen
1 and 3 modern cars
2 price for a ride
4 network
5 history
6 ambiance
Grenoble and Zurich are no Capital Cities!!! 😉
@@stefanweiss4695 I know, but anyway, there is a perfect PTS
Either Prague or Vienna,I would say. Although Amsterdam and Helsinki is also nice and extensive.
Not fair that you missed to show that Lisbon has the old but also modern trams. 7:13 I love that sound .D
God the noise of those trams in Athens must be excruciating for the poor people living in the apartments right on those streets.
Saint Petersburg was called a Tram Capital of the world. In 80-s it had the biggest tram system ever (over 600km). Now it is dramatically reduced but why isn't it shown here?
Prague 🥰
Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Brussels and Vienna are excellent!!!
Want to see such modern, less sound polluting and vibration less modern articulated trams in my city Kolkata. I wish I could see the development before I die...!!!
Прага, Москва. Prague, Moscow
If rotterdam was the capital of the Netherlands then I’ll be 100% sure it would be the best the RET is really good
Amsterdam & Berlin! ❤