France

Operating or Under Construction

Angers
Aubagne
Bale (Basil Switzerland)
Bordeaux
Bourg-St. Maurice-Les Arc
Caen
Clermont-Ferrand

Dijon
Grenoble

Laon
Le Havre
Le Mans
Leyman
Lille
Lyon
Marseille 
Medoc
Mont Blanc
Montpellier
Mulhouse
Nancy
Nantes
Nice
Orleans
Paris
Reims
Rennes
Rouen

Saint-Etienne (
Rhone-Alpes)
Sarreguerinnes (Sarbrook Germany)
Strassbourg

Tignes
Toulon
Tours
Toulouse

Val d'Isere
Ville Valenciennes
Villefranche-La Tour de Carol
Vallee de la Deule (HT)

Planned

Ajaccio

Annecy
Annesmasse
Aubagne

Besançon

Bethune
Brest
Bruay-la-Buissière
Chambery Aix-les-Bains
Douai
Dunkerque
Fort-de-France (Martinique)
Grand Avignon
Liévin
Nimes
Thionville
Toulon
Tours

Honorable Mention
La Rochelle
Loire Region
Marne





Bordeaux (Burdigala)
Light Rail

Bordeaux has three light rail lnes totaling 84 stops and 43.3 km. Most of the lines are seperated street runnning.

The first line opened in 2003, and all three use Alstom's APC technology, which embeds the trams' power supply in the ground as opposed to the conventional unsightly method of strining the power above the tram. How gauche! 

As of 2008, a city center tunnel for the tramway is beng debated. According to some - and you know who you are - this would change the defnition of the system from tramway to light metro. Or maybe it would be Metro Light.  EIther way, word is that this could reduce the fatalities and injuries - 7 and 800, respectively, since the tram's openeing.

Transcub (Bordeaux Tramfan group)
CUB: Bordeaux's bus and tramway authority
Brief Youtube cab ride
Excellent LRTA Review of the Bordeaux system