France

Operating or Under Construction

Angers
Bordeaux
Bourg-St. Maurice-Les Arc
Caen
Clermont-Ferrand
Grenoble
Laon
Le Mans
Leyman
Lille
Lyon
Marseille 
Mont Blanc
Montpellier
Mulhouse
Nancy
Nantes
Nice
Orleans
Paris
Rennes
Rouen

Saint-Etienne (Paris)
Strassbourg
Tignes
Toulon
Toulouse
Val d'Isere
Ville Valenciennes
Villefranche-La Tour de Carol

Planned

Brest
Douai
Dunkerque
Fort-de-France (Martinique)
Le Havre
Reims
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. 

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