Trams in Mestre

Venice Tramway

Operation
Locale	Venice, Veneto, Italy
Open	20 December 2010 (2010-12-20)
Lines	2
Operator(s)	Actv
Infrastructure
Track gauge	None (there is no track)
Electrification	(?)
Overview

The Venice Tramway (Italian: Tranvia di Venezia) is a tramway forming part of the public transport system in Venice, Favaro Veneto, Mestre and Marghera, three boroughs of the city and comune of Venice, northeast Italy.

Since 2015, the tramway is link to piazzale Roma (the main bus station) in Venice.

The tramway uses Translohr rubber-tyred system.

History

Trams returned to Mestre on 20 December 2010. Mestre's earlier urban and suburban tramway network had been disposed of more than half a century earlier, following the closure of its last line in 1951.

See also

• List of town tramway systems in Italy
• History of rail transport in Italy
• Rail transport in Italy

References

External links

Media related to Trams in Mestre at Wikimedia Commons

• Venezia-Mestre database / photo gallery and Venezia-Mestre tram list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.

Urban public transport networks and systems in Italy
Commuter rail	Bari Bologna Cagliari Catanzaro Genoa Messina Milan Naples Circumflegrea Circumvesuviana Cumana Naples–Aversa Palermo Perugia Potenza Reggio Calabria Rome Rome–Giardinetti Rome–Lido Rome–Viterbo Salerno Ticino Turin Tuscany
Rapid transit	Brescia Catania Genoa Milan Naples Rome Turin
Trams	Operational Bergamo–Albino Cagliari Florence Messina Mestre (Venice) Milan Milan–Limbiate Naples Padua Rome Sassari Turin Trieste–Opicina Closed Trieste
Trolleybuses	Operational Ancona Bologna Cagliari Chieti Genoa La Spezia Lecce Milan Modena Naples Parma Rimini–Riccione Rome Sanremo Closed Trieste
People movers	Milan Perugia Venice

Coordinates: 45°29′36″N 12°14′47″E / 45.49333°N 12.24639°E / 45.49333; 12.24639