List of light-rail transit systems

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The following is a list of cities that have tram / light-rail systems as part of their public transport system.

See also:

• List of United States Light Rail systems by ridership
• List of town tramway (urban tramway, streetcar) systems
• List of metro systems
• List of suburban and commuter rail systems
• List of trolleybus systems

Contents 1 Asia 1.1 People's Republic of China 1.1.1 Mainland China 1.1.2 Hong Kong 1.2 India 1.3 Japan 1.3.1 Proposed Light Rail Systems in Japan 1.4 Malaysia 1.5 North Korea 1.6 Philippines 1.7 Singapore 1.8 Turkey 2 Africa 2.1 Egypt 2.2 Tunisia 2.3 Nigeria 3 Europe 3.1 Abkhazia 3.2 Austria 3.3 Belarus 3.4 Belgium 3.5 Bosnia-Herzegovina 3.6 Bulgaria 3.7 Croatia 3.8 Czech Republic 3.9 Estonia 3.10 Finland 3.11 France 3.12 Germany 3.12.1 Light rail (Stadtbahn or Strassenbahn) 3.12.2 Tram 3.13 Hungary 3.14 Ireland 3.15 Isle of Man 3.16 Italy 3.17 Latvia 3.18 Netherlands 3.19 Norway 3.20 Poland 3.21 Portugal 3.22 Romania 3.23 Russia 3.24 Serbia 3.25 Spain 3.26 Slovakia 3.27 Sweden 3.28 Switzerland 3.29 Ukraine 3.30 United Kingdom 4 Oceania 4.1 Australia 4.2 New Zealand 5 North America 5.1 Canada 5.2 Mexico 5.3 United States 5.3.1 Current and future light-rail systems 5.3.2 Proposed light rail systems 5.3.3 Heritage streetcar systems 6 Caribbean 6.1 Puerto Rico 7 South America 7.1 Argentina 7.2 Brazil 7.3 Peru 7.4 Venezuela 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] Asia

[edit] People's Republic of China

[edit] Mainland China

• Anshan
• Changchun
• Chongqing
• Dalian
• Tianjin
• Wuhan

[edit] Hong Kong

• Hong Kong - Hong Kong Tramways, KCR Light Rail

[edit] India

• Kolkata - CTC
• New Delhi - Delhi Metro

[edit] Japan

• Fukui - Fukui Railway (Interurban streetcar)
• Hakodate - Hakodate City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
• Hiroshima - Hiroshima Electric Railway (tramway with LRV's)
• Kagoshima - Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
• Kamakura, Fujisawa - Enoshima Electric Railway (tramway consist of private right of way)
• Kitakyushu - Chikuho Electric Railway (tramway consist of private right of way)
• Kochi - Tosa Electric Railway (tramway)
• Kumamoto - Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
• Kyoto - Keifuku Electric Railway (tramway mainly consist of private right of way)
• Matsuyama - Iyo Railway (tramway)
• Nagasaki - Nagasaki Electric Tramway (tramway)
• Okayama - Okayama Electric Tramway (tramway)
• Osaka, Sakai - Hankai Electric Tramway (tramway)
• Otsu - Keishin Line, Ishiyama Sakamoto Line (Interurban streetcar) operated by Keihan Electric Railway
• Sapporo - Sapporo City Transportation Bureau (tramway)
• Takaoka, Shinminato - Manyo Line Corporation (tramway)
• Tokyo

  - Toden Arakawa Line (tramway) operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation

  - Tokyu Setagaya Line (tramway consist of private right of way) operated by Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway

• Toyama - Toyama City Line (tramway) operated by Toyama Regional Railway
• Toyama - Toyama Light Rail (from 29 April 2006)
• Toyohashi - Toyohashi City Line (tramway) operated by Toyohashi Railway

[edit] Proposed Light Rail Systems in Japan

• Kumamoto - Kumamoto Electoric Railway
• Kyoto
• Toshima, Tokyo
• Utsunomiya

[edit] Malaysia

• Kuala Lumpur - Kelana Jaya Line (formerly Putra LRT), Ampang Line and Sri Petaling Line (both formerly Star LRT)

[edit] North Korea

• Cheongjin
• Pyongyang

[edit] Philippines

• Manila - Manila Light Rail Transit System (LRT) (two lines), Manila Metro Rail Transit System (MRT)

[edit] Singapore

• Singapore - Bukit Panjang LRT Line, Sengkang LRT Line (partially open), Punggol LRT Line (partially open)

[edit] Turkey

• Ankara
• Antalya
• Bursa
• Eskişehir
• İstanbul
• Konya

[edit] Africa

[edit] Egypt

• Cairo - trams
• Alexandria - trams

[edit] Tunisia

• Tunis - métro léger - list of Tunis Métro stations

[edit] Nigeria

• Abuja - Phase 1 to be completed 2007 [1]
• Lagos - This is being developed [2] by Lemna International [3] Lagos Metroline Project revived

[edit] Europe

See also: Trams in Europe

[edit] Abkhazia

• New Athos - underground light rail.

[edit] Austria

• Gmunden, Gmunden-Vorchdorf, Vorchdorf-Lambach, Lambach-Haag
• Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Linz-Pöstlingberg
• Linz-Waizenkirchen, Salzburg, Vöcklamarkt-Attersee
• Wien (Vienna), Wien-Baden

[edit] Belarus

• Minsk, Mazyr, Novopolotsk, Vitebsk

[edit] Belgium

• Antwerp and Ghent, operated by De Lijn
• Brussels, operated by MIVB/STIB
• Charleroi, operated by TEC
• Belgian Coastal Tram, operated by De Lijn

[edit] Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Sarajevo

[edit] Bulgaria

• Sofia

[edit] Croatia

• Osijek
• Zagreb

[edit] Czech Republic

• Brno
• České Budějovice
• Liberec
• Most-Litvínov
• Olomouc
• Ostrava
• Plzeň
• Prague

[edit] Estonia

• Tallinn

[edit] Finland

• Helsinki: Helsinki tram

[edit] France

• Bordeaux
• Caen - Guided Light Transit guided bus marketed as 'trams on tyres' (rubber tired trams)
• Clermont-Ferrand (under construction)
• Grenoble
• Île-de-France (Paris)
• Lille to Roubaix to Tourcoing
• Lyon
• Marseille
• Montpellier
• Nancy - Guided Light Transit guided bus marketed as 'trams on tyres' (rubber tired trams)
• Nantes
• Orléans
• Rouen
• Saint-Etienne
• Strasbourg
• Valenciennes

[edit] Germany

See also: Trams in Germany

[edit] Light rail (Stadtbahn or Strassenbahn)

• Baden-Baden, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim (linked as Stadtbahn Karlsruhe/Karlsruher Modell)
• Bielefeld
• Bochum, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr (linked as Stadtbahn Rhein-Ruhr)
• Bonn, Cologne(Köln), Siegburg (linked as Stadtbahn Köln/Bonn)
• Frankfurt (U-Bahn is also technically a light rail transit system, see also Frankfurt Transit)
• Hanover
• Kassel
• Saarbrücken
• Stuttgart

[edit] Tram

• Berlin
• Bochum
• Bonn
• Darmstadt
• Duisburg
• Düsseldorf
• Essen
• Frankfurt am Main
• Frankfurt (Oder) (although Line 4 is built to light-rail specifications)
• Freiburg im Breisgau
• Gelsenkirchen
• Herne
• Kassel
• Leipzig
• Mainz
• Mannheim
• Mülheim an der Ruhr
• Munich
• Oberhausen
• ~50 others [4]

[edit] Hungary

• Budapest – tram lines operated by BKV
• Debrecen – tram lines operated by DKV
• Miskolc – tram lines operated by MVK Rt.
• Szeged – tram lines operated by SzKT

[edit] Ireland

• Dublin - Luas (operated by Connex)

[edit] Isle of Man

• Douglas Horse Tram
• Manx Electric Railway
• Snaefell Mountain Railway

[edit] Italy

• Genova, Genova-Casella, Messina, Milano, Napoli
• Napoli-Sorrento (Circumvesuviana), Roma, Soprabolzano, Torino
• Trento-Malé, Trieste

[edit] Latvia

• Daugavpils, Liepaja, Riga

[edit] Netherlands

See also: Transportation in the Netherlands

• Amsterdam - Gemeentelijk Vervoerbedrijf (GVB)
• Rotterdam - Rotterdamse Electrische Tramweg Maatschappij (RET)
• The Hague, Delft - Haagsche Tramweg Maatschappij (HTM)
• The Hague, Zoetermeer - Randstadrail Haagsche Tramweg Maatschappij (HTM)
• The Hague, Rotterdam - Randstadrail Rotterdamse Electrische Tramweg Maatschappij (RET)
• Gouda, Alphen aan den Rijn - Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
• Utrecht - Connexxion
• Houten - Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
• RijnGouweLijn - under construction; partly shares tracks with rapid transit

[edit] Norway

• Oslo, Oslotrikken, daughter company of Oslo Sporveier
• Trondheim, Gråkallbanen

[edit] Poland

• Bydgoszcz
• Częstochowa
• Elbląg
• Gdańsk
• Gorzów Wielkopolski
• Upper Silesia - Silesian Interurbans
• Grudziądz
• Kraków
• Łódź (also nearby cities of Pabianice and Zgierz connected)
• Poznań - Poznański Szybki Tramwaj
• Szczecin
• Toruń
• Warsaw - Tramwaje Warszawskie (city trams), Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (suburban light rail)
• Wrocław

[edit] Portugal

• Lisboa
• Porto (Metro do Porto)
• Margem Sul (Metro Sul do Tejo)

[edit] Romania

• Arad
• Botoşani
• Braşov
• Brăila
• Bucharest (includes both a high-density tram network and a modern light rail network)
• Constanţa
• Cluj-Napoca
• Galaţi
• Iaşi
• Oradea
• Ploieşti
• Timişoara

[edit] Russia

• Achinsk
• Angarsk
• Arkhangelsk
• Astrakhan
• Barnaul
• Biysk
• Chelyabinsk
• Cherepovets
• Cheryomushki
• Dzerzhinsk
• Groznyi
• Irkutsk
• Ivanovo
• Izhevsk
• Kaliningrad
• Kazan
• Kemerovo
• Khabarovsk
• Kolomna
• Komsomolsk-on-Amur
• Krasnoarmeysk
• Krasnodar
• Krasnoturinsk
• Krasnoyarsk
• Kursk
• Lipetsk
• Magnitogorsk
• Moscow
• Naberezhnye Chelny
• Nizhnekamsk
• Nizhniy Tagil
• Noginsk
• Novocherkassk
• Novokuznetsk
• Novosibirsk
• Novotroitsk
• Omsk
• Orel
• Orsk
• Osinniki
• Perm
• Prokopyevsk
• Pyatigorsk
• Rostov-on-Don
• Ryazan
• St. Petersburg
• Salavat
• Samara
• Saratov
• Smolensk
• Stary Oskol
• Taganrog
• Tomsk
• Tula
• Tver
• Ufa
• Ulan-Ude
• Ulyanovsk
• Usolye Sibirskoye
• Ust-Ilimsk
• Ust-Katav
• Vladikavkaz
• Vladivostok
• Volchansk
• Volgograd (Metrotram system)
• Volzhskiy
• Voronezh
• Yaroslavl
• Yekaterinburg
• Zlatoust

Complete list: [5]

[edit] Serbia

• Belgrade - Belgrade Light Metro (Under construction - The first line will be finished in 2008.)

[edit] Spain

• Alicante - TRAM (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana)
• Barcelona (Trambaix and Trambesòs)
• Bilbao - EuskoTran
• Seville - Seville metro (Under construction - The first line will be finished in 2007.)
• Valencia - Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana

[edit] Slovakia

• Bratislava
• Košice
• Poprad-Štrbské Pleso (Tatra Electric Railway)
• Štrba-Štrbské Pleso (Štrbské Pleso - Štrba rack railway)
• Trenčianska Teplá-Trenčianske Teplice

[edit] Sweden

• Gothenburg - Gothenburg tram
• Lidingö - Lidingöbanan
• Norrköping
• Stockholm - Djurgårdslinjen, Nockebybanan, Tvärbanan

[edit] Switzerland

• Basel
• Bern
• Geneva
• Zürich

[edit] Ukraine

• Eupatoria, tram
• Kiev - tram and fast tram
• Kharkiv
• Konotop, the smallest town with a stand-alone tram
• Kryvyi Rih - Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
• Lviv - Lviv tram

[edit] United Kingdom

• Belfast - future EWAY, WWAY, CITI, SupeRoute
• Birmingham to Wolverhampton - Midland Metro
• Blackpool - Blackpool tramway
• Croydon - Croydon Tramlink
• Edinburgh - future Edinburgh Tram Network
• Glasgow - Glasgow Subway
• Llandudno - Great Orme Tramway
• London - Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink
• Manchester - Manchester Metrolink
• Nottingham - Nottingham Express Transit
• Sheffield - Sheffield Supertram
• Sunderland and Tyneside - Tyne and Wear Metro

[edit] Oceania

See also: Trams in Australasia

[edit] Australia

Existing:

• Melbourne - Trams in Melbourne - Third largest tram system in the world
• Sydney - Metro Light Rail
• Adelaide - Glenelg Tramway, O-Bahn (guided busway)
• Victor Harbor - Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Tram

Proposed:

• Brisbane - inner city area (numerous proposals)
• Gold Coast - Gold Coast Light Rail
• Fraser Island

[edit] New Zealand

• Christchurch (tourist tram service)

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

• Calgary, Alberta - C-Train
• Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Transit System
• Ottawa, Ontario - O-Train (diesel-powered pilot project)
• Toronto, Ontario - Scarborough RT and TTC Streetcars
• Toronto, Ontario - TTC Light Rail System (under planning)
• Vancouver, British Columbia - Evergreen Line (under construction)

[edit] Mexico

• Guadalajara – tren eléctrico urbano, running from north to south, with terminals in both sides of the outer ring, through the Colón-Federalismo avenue. SITEUR [6]
• Mexico City – Xochimilco–Tasqueña tren ligero [7]
• Monterrey [8]

[edit] United States

[edit] Current and future light-rail systems

• Baltimore, Maryland – Baltimore Light Rail
• Boston, Massachusetts – MBTA Green Line
• Buffalo, New York – Buffalo Metro Rail
• Camden, New Jersey to Trenton, New Jersey – River Line
• Charlotte, North Carolina – Lynx Light Rail (schedule to open August 2007)
• Cleveland, Ohio – RTA Blue and Green Lines
• Dallas, Texas – Dallas Area Rapid Transit Light Rail
• Denver, Colorado – TheRide
• Galveston, Texas – Island Transit
• Houston, Texas – METRORail
• Bayonne, New Jersey to North Bergen, New Jersey – Hudson-Bergen Light Rail
• Kansas City, Missouri – Heartland Light Rail System (passed on November 7, 2006 ballot)[9]
• Kenosha, Wisconsin – Kenosha Transit
• Los Angeles, California – LACMTA Blue Line, Green Line, and Gold Line
• Minneapolis, Minnesota – Hiawatha Line
• New Orleans, Louisiana – New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA)
• Newark, New Jersey – Newark City Subway
• Phoenix, Arizona – Valley Metro Rail (scheduled opening in 2008)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley Lines and Suburban Trolley Lines
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh Light Rail
• Portland, Oregon – MAX Light Rail, Portland Streetcar
• Sacramento, California – Sacramento Regional Transit District Blue and Gold Lines
• St. Louis, Missouri – St. Louis Metrolink
• Salt Lake City, Utah – UTA TRAX
• San Diego, California – San Diego Trolley
• San Francisco, California – Muni Metro
• San Jose, California – Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
• Seattle, Washington – Sound Transit Central Link (scheduled to open 2009)
• Tacoma, Washington – Sound Transit Tacoma Link

[edit] Proposed light rail systems

• Albuquerque, New Mexico – Albuquerque Rapid Transit Project
• Arlington, Virginia – Columbia Pike Transit Alternative
• Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta Inner Core Transit Feasibility Study
• Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Regional Transportation Authority Northwest Connectivity Study
• Atlanta, Georgia – Atlanta Streetcar (heritage streetcar system)
• Austin, Texas – Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority All Systems Go! Project
• Bangor, Maine – Bangor to Trenton Transportation Alternatives Study
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Baton Rouge Area Transportation Solutions
• Bellevue, Washington – Eastside Rail
• Birmingham, Alabama – Birmingham Regional Transportation Alternatives Analysis
• Charleston, South Carolina – Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority
• Chicago, Illinois – Chicago Transit Authority
• Cincinnati, Ohio – Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority
• Columbus, Ohio – Central Ohio Transit Authority
• Corpus Christi, Texas – Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority
• Detroit, Michigan – Downtown Detroit to Metro Airport Rapid Transit Alternative Analysis Study
• El Paso, Texas – Sun Metro Area Rapid Transit Line
• Fort Worth, Texas – Fort Worth Transportation Authority
• Grand Canyon, Arizona – Grand Canyon Transit
• Honolulu, Hawaii – Oahu Transit Services
• Jacksonville, Florida – Jacksonville Transportation Authority Transportation Alternatives Study
• Los Angeles, California – Friends 4 Expo Transit and Metro Gold Line Construction Authority
• Louisville, Kentucky – Transportation Tomorrow
• Madison, Wisconsin – Transport 2020
• Miami, Florida – Trafficrelief (People's Transportation Plan)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Milwaukee County Transit System
• Minneapolis, Minnesota – Central Corridor and Southwest Corridor (Minnesota Department of Transportation Light Rail)
• New York, New York – Staten Island Light Rail
• New York, New York – vision42
• Newark, New Jersey to Elizabeth, New Jersey – Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link (New Jersey Transit)
• Norfolk, Virginia – Norfolk Light Rail Project
• Oceanside, California – North County Transit District
• Oklahoma City Metro Transit – Downtown Trolley [10]
• Orange, California – Orange County Transportation Authority (shelved as of October 2005 due to lack of federal funding)
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – light rail system to the Delaware River and sports complex via one of the following: [11]
  • extension of SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley Lines
  • new PATCO trolley system from presently abandoned Franklin Square station
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – extension of Pittsburgh Light Rail from Downtown to North Shore by 2010; extension to other neighborhoods proposed
• Raleigh, North Carolina – Triangle Transit Authority
• Richmond, Virginia – GRTC Transit System
• Rochester, New York – Rochester Rail Transit Committee
• San Antonio, Texas – VIA Metropolitan Transit
• Spokane, Washington – Spokane Regional Light Rail
• Tucson, Arizona – Tucsonans for Sensible Transportation (ballot proposal defeated in 2003/2004)

[edit] Heritage streetcar systems

• Charlotte, North Carolina – CATS-Charlotte Area Transit System
• Dallas, Texas – McKinney Avenue Transit Authority
• Little Rock to North Little Rock, Arkansas – River Rail Streetcar
• Memphis, Tennessee – Memphis Area Transit Authority
• New Orleans, Louisiana – St. Charles Avenue Streetcar
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – SEPTA Route 15 (Girard Avenue Trolley)
• Portland, Oregon – Portland Vintage Trolley, Willamette Shore Trolley
• San Francisco, California – F Market, San Francisco cable car system
• Seattle, Washington – Waterfront Streetcar
• Tampa, Florida – TECO Line Streetcar System
• Tucson, Arizona – Old Pueblo Trolley

[edit] Caribbean

[edit] Puerto Rico

• San Juan to Caguas - Light interurban rail (planning stages)

[edit] South America

[edit] Argentina

• Buenos Aires
  • Light-Rail Tram: Tren de la Costa and Premetro
  • Historic Heritage Tram: Caballito (tourist operation on weekends)
  • Puerto Madero Tramway (Tranvía del Este) (under construction)
  • Proposed extencion of Puerto Madero Tramway to Estación Retiro and la Boca
  • Proposed Heritage Tram: San Telmo
• Mendoza - Urban Ferro Tram (Ferro Tranvía Urbano) (planning stages)

[edit] Brazil

• Rio de Janeiro - The Santa Teresa Historic Tramway
• Santos - Santos Historic Tramway
• Belém - Heritage Tram (under construction)

[edit] Peru

• Lima - Heritage Tram

[edit] Venezuela

• Maracaibo - Light Rail (under construction)
• Valencia - Light Rail (under construction)

[edit] See also

• Rapid transit
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of town tramway (urban tramway, streetcar) systems

[edit] External links

• North American Light Rail System Maps & Details
• World list of Light Rail, Trams and Metros at Light Rail Transit Association website
• World Rail Transit List

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