>>1024941So this is really becoming reality, then?
t. Finland.
Three big tramway projects approved this year, can't be but happy.
This is Tampere tram. As reported in this thread already, it got yeasterday approved by the city council, so the building will start and rolling stock will be ordered in 2017. Lenght in total is 21 km and it will need 30ish 35 m long (modular, so extendable) vehicles.
If we are fully precise, only the portion in the east, where the blue line ends got approved yesterday. The western strech will be approved in the future due budget and routing disputes, but the goal is that the wester portion will be built right after the works start to be done on the eastern portin.
As said, the precise routing in the western portion has been debated for the whole lenght of the project. It's really murky, I don't want to comment any further. Another issue was that the absolutely final price of 250 m€ was deemed simply too little. This was few months before the decision. Also for this summer Helsinki metro delays and budget overruns have been a hot topic. Meaning critics have had topics and sources.
In this environment, getting the eastern sections approved and decide later on the western part (already dubbed "west tram" after Helsinki's "west metro") later was a big win; 41 - 25, 1 empty.
