Bordeaux's tramway, which carries more than 250,000 passengers per day, cost €1.25 billion - less than a quarter of what Dublin plans to squander on Metro North, which (in effect) will put Luas ...

"€1.4 billion is a lot of money, but since the year 2000 we’ve pumped more than €2billion in the tramway,” added Bordeaux transport head Christophe Duprat.

All Bordeaux Citadis trams feature ground-level power supply system APS and other equipment to reduce energy consumption. Alstom site manager in La Rochelle François Papin said: “We are very happy ...

Bordeaux’s tram system, initiated by Alain Juppe in 2003, spans 82km with 130 trams. The system, costing €3 billion ($5.4b), serves 350,000 people daily, using electric trams.

Trams in the city centre of Bordeaux stopped briefly with less than an hour to go to Ireland's Euros 2016 clash with Belgium. Thousands of Irish and Belgian fans disembarked the city's trams as ...