One of the most modern tram systems in the world and certainly the youngest. It was opened a month ago, on November 11, 2014. Now there are 11 stations, some of which connect to the metro and monorail. Dubai tram is amazing! He falls in love with himself at first sight. While all over Russia incompetent assholes in city halls are destroying trams, removing rails and selling the land of former tram depots, Dubai is building an excellent tram system from scratch. In Dubai! Where public transport has always been associated with the transfer of guest workers to great construction sites. Even in Dubai, they realized that a convenient city is impossible without the normal development of public transport, and revised their transport policy. Trams manufactured by Alstom.
The wagons are of incredible beauty. Each carriage has 4 sections, there are several sections: gold, regular and female.
Black muzzle like a jewel in a setting. Very nice.
The tram runs on a dedicated line. Notice ... what's missing? Contact network!
This is where the power cable runs along the ground.
How it works: Tram at a stop.
There is very convenient navigation around the tram line in the city.
Stop sign. 
Map of the area around the station.
Bus stops are closed.
The tram runs from 6.30 am (on Fridays - from 9) to 1.30 am, during rush hour the interval is 10 minutes, the rest of the time - 12.
It is cool, clean and light inside the bus stop. A police officer is on duty at each station. Validation and purchase of tickets takes place before boarding the tram.
Tickets: the same ticket is valid on trams as on the metro and monorail. This is a Nol card, it works on the same principle as the "Troika" - a certain amount is debited from the account for each trip, which depends on the class of the carriage and the distance. It is planned to divide the tram lines into three zones, the more zones you cross, the more expensive. Now there is only one zone, and one trip costs 3 dirhams (44 rubles), in the "gold" class - twice as much. There are also subscriptions for the week (50 dirhams / 725 rubles), month, quarter and year (1060 dirhams / 15386 rubles). The prices are not the smallest, and when two more zones are built, for an annual subscription for all directions in the gold class, you will have to pay 5340 dirhams, that is, 77 thousand rubles.
I was on a day off, the interval, of course, is large. Now new cars are awaiting, the intervals will be shortened, the line will be developed.
In the meantime, 11 stations.
The interior of the carriage.
There is a separate space for luggage. I was just driving with a suitcase
This is a separate compartment for women and children.
The men are kicked out of here
Gold class, tickets are twice as expensive.
There are fewer people in it, the seats are wider.
The controller walks in and checks the tickets.
Another controller.
Doors at the station and on the tram open simultaneously, as in some metro systems.
For breaking the rules road traffic at the crossroads with tram lines motorists face a fine of up to 30 thousand dirhams (almost 8.2 thousand dollars). For crossing paths in the wrong place, pedestrians will be punished with a fine of 1000 dirhams ($ 272)
To prevent people from walking along the paths, special slabs with concrete spikes are placed in dangerous places, it is impossible to walk along them, but if something happens, the car will be able to pass.
Passengers are taught how to use the tram ...
And now I want to say hello to strong business executives from Omsk. If they had not buried so much money in the ground over the 12 years of construction of the metro, which is unnecessary for the city, then today I would be writing a post about the most modern and young tram system in Omsk, and not in distant Dubai. But Omsk loves to suffer and, with incredible persistence, continue to bury money in its famous metro. And at this time, Arab sheikhs travel comfortably to the bright future on a modern tram.
Municipal autonomous preschool educational institution
"Kindergarten number 97 Bee"
with the priority implementation of the cognitive and speech development of children.
Lesson summary
on traffic rules on the topic:
Work completed
Educators of the senior group number 7
Naberezhnye Chelny, 2012
INTRODUCTION
(From the history of the creation of public urban transport)
1. Bus
What is the bus for?
When we need to Kindergarten, to work, to visit, we get on the bus. The bus is accessible to any person, therefore they are public transport. Public transport means transport for all.
At the bus stop pandemonium:
People are looking forward to the bus.
People need to get to work -
Everyone fit into the hunt bus.
It's just a shame that the transport is gasoline
All will not enter: it, alas, is not rubber!
What does a bus look like?
The word "bus" means "multi-seat". Outwardly, it looks like a large wagon on wheels with windows and doors. The inside of the bus is equipped so that people are comfortable in it.
You can ride the bus either sitting or standing. For seated passengers, rows of seats are located near the windows. For those who are standing, there are crossbars - handrails so that you can hold onto them and not fall while driving. Buses that travel to other cities or abroad may have a TV, toilet and other additional amenities. You can often see the so-called "double bus" or "accordion bus" on the roads. This is one of the types of road train.
What kind of buses are there?
Depending on the route, buses are urban, suburban, intercity and special. Urban buses run around the city, suburban take people out of town or work out of town. On intercity on buses, passengers can get to other cities or go abroad. Special buses can take, for example, children to a summer camp or a construction team to work.
How does the bus work?
This type of public transport usually travels along a specific route. When the bus arrives, we usually look at it windshield... If, for example, we see the number 37, then the bus is following route 37.
The bus stops after certain sections of the route. At each stop, the driver presses a special button to open the doors. After some passengers have left and others have entered, the chauffeur closes the doors of the bus and drives to the next stop.
In a city bus, as a rule, it works conductor who sells tickets. If there is no conductor, then the passenger is obliged to buy a ticket from the driver and punch it with a special device called a composter.
Sometimes a controller gets on the bus. He checks if passengers have tickets or validated tickets. Free riders must pay the controller a certain fine.
Minibus.
The word "micro" means "small". A minibus is a small bus.
A minibus can accommodate fewer people than a bus, but more than a passenger car, so it is used as route taxi... This type of transport is called "minibus". The minibus carries passengers on a specific route, and not to any place like a taxi.
"Minibus" travels faster than a regular bus. The bus must stop at any stop in order to let passengers in or out, and the minibus must stop even when asked by the people traveling in it.
2. Tram and his family.
It was hard to live without a tram in a big city. But big cities began to appear several centuries ago.
And what then did the townspeople ride?
First, the omnibus was invented - a large multi-seat carriage. The word "omnibus" is Latin, it means "for everyone." Omnibuses are long gone, but the word has proved to be tenacious. A piece of it - "bus" lives in the names of today's cars: "trolleybus", "bus".
When the Russian scientist Boris Semenovich Yakobi invented the electric motor in 1837, he tried to adapt it to transport people. Soon an electric trailer was ready, running on rails. A person could get into the trailer. True, it fit there with difficulty: almost all the space was occupied by batteries. Jacobi calculated that such a trailer with batteries is 12 times more expensive than a steam locomotive!
Almost forty years passed before the first power plants appeared. Now it was no longer necessary to carry expensive batteries, and in 1879 the first tram appeared.
The word "tram" came to us from England. Only it is pronounced there "tram-wei". "Tram" - "carriage", "wei" - "way". "Tram-way" - "a carriage walking on tracks, on rails."
And yet it is being replaced by a trolleybus. What does this word mean? The ending "beads" is part of the word "omnibus" - "carriage for all." And "trolls" are "contact wire". The trolleybus, like the tram, is powered by electric current from the contact wires suspended above the street. But trolleybuses have no rails.
The trolleybus rolls softly, almost inaudibly, on its rubber tires. He seems to be walking in his soft slippers, and the tram, no matter how hard they try to calm him down, rattles with its wheels, like forged boots.
If one tram gets damaged on the way, stops on the line, all trams will follow it. They are in good working order, but they cannot go - the line is busy. And the trolleybus will be rolled aside, disconnected from the wires - and the path is clear.
It is much cheaper and easier to run a trolleybus in the city than a tram. After all, a trolleybus does not need rails. True, he needs not one contact wire, but two. But all the same - it is much easier to hang the second wire than to lay the rails. Therefore, more and more trolleybuses appear not only in large, but also in small cities.
But why is this good car did not appear immediately? The trolleybus is almost the same age as the tram. The first experimental trolleybus was built in 1882. Only experiments with him were unsuccessful. There were no rubber inflatable tires at that time, the wheels of the first trolleybus were the same as those of the cart. And the streets in the cities were paved with cobblestones. On the cobblestone pavement, a high-speed trolleybus bounced and swayed like a cart rushing down a mountain. It is clear that at the same time his pantographs jumped off the wires all the time. And no matter how hard the engineers fought, they could not help this grief.
The tram won. His carriage rolled smoothly on the rails, the arc did not jump off the wire. And the trolleybus was ridiculed like the ugly duckling in Andersen's tale.
But fifty years passed - and the streets of big cities were covered with smooth asphalt. Cars on elastic tires rolled silently and smoothly over them. And then it was finally time for the trolleybus. On a good road, it seemed better than a tram. Walking around the city, you notice that the railway lines are crossing the asphalt road. They, like snakes, wriggling, run away into the distance. But these are not snakes at all - they are rails. Electric wires are stretched over the rails. Before us is the city railway - tram lines.
On them, loudly knocking wheels, a tram drives up to the stop - another type of city public transport.
So that we do not go on foot,
There are tram lines.
Let's go to the stop
And we'll wait for the tram.
What does a tram look like?
Tram and trolleybus are similar to each other. They are both powered by electricity from wires stretched over the road. But if the arcs with which the trolleybus clings to the wires are similar to the antennae of a butterfly or horns, then the arc of the tram resembles a bent hand with which it firmly holds an electric wire.
Externally, both types of transport are wagons on wheels, however, a tram can consist of several wagons connected
between themselves.
If the wheels of a trolleybus are "shod" in rubber tires, since it drives on asphalt, then the tram has iron wheels, therefore they knock so loudly on the rails.
Inside the tram, like a trolleybus and a bus, the same rows of seats and handrails are the same to hold onto. It works the same way: letting in and out of passengers at stops, hurries on, rattling wagons.
3. Trolleybus.
What does a trolleybus look like?
One little girl, seeing an unfamiliar vehicle, said to her friend: "Look, what a funny bus - with mustache like a butterfly!"
Her friend, the same little girl, objected: "These are not antennae at all, but horns, they hold on to the wires!"
The mode of transport that the friends mistook for a horned bus is called trolleybus. Only on the roof it does not have antennae or horns, but arches. With these arcs, the trolleybus clings to the wires, and through them an electric current flows to its engine.
The trolleybus is moving forward
Holding onto the wires.
He takes people slowly,
Sighing sometimes.
What are the similarities and differences between a trolleybus and a bus?
The bus can go wherever there is a road, the trolleybus moves only where the electric wires are stretched. The bus is powered by gasoline, while the trolleybus is powered by electricity. Inside, the trolleybus differs little from the bus. Like the bus, the trolleybus is a public transport.
The trolleybus speed is not as high as that of the bus, but thanks to electric motor, this type of transport does not pollute the air with exhaust gases.
4. Metro.
What is the metro for?
On the roads of big cities they rush about their business different cars... Everyone needs to get somewhere urgently: big heavy trucks, special vehicles, and nimble passenger cars... Public transport - buses, trolleybuses, trams - is also in a hurry to dissolve passengers. But the trouble is: there is a lot of transport, but there is only one road! Not all cars fit on it! So there are congestions. They are also called corks. Cars caught in such a traffic jam move at the speed of a turtle, or even stand still. There is also public transport. As a result, everyone is late.
And this is where METRO comes to the rescue of overloaded buses, trolleybuses and trams. Since most of the people go underground and get to the desired place by metro, it becomes more spacious on city roads. As a result, everyone is happy.
I go underground
I look and wonder:
All around it is beautiful and light
As at home, dry and warm.
What is Metro?
METRO is a type of railway transport that transports passengers underground. Underground trains are powered by electricity. The word "metro" comes from the full word "metro", which means "city", "metropolitan".
In our country, there are several cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan.
Software content
Educational: Provide during the lesson the repetition and consolidation of the following concepts: "public transport", "bus", "tram", "trolleybus", "metro".
Form the following skills:
Avoid public city transport correctly
Behave correctly on the bus, trolleybus and tram.
Developing: Promote the development of will and resilience to learning through problem solving.
Develop interest in learning through the introduction of play situations.
Continue the formation of the ability to compare, generalize, analyze.
Educational: Promote moral education, with a focus on ethical standards.
Course of the lesson:
In the hall on the floor there is a diagram of an intersection with crossings, plane traffic lights, bus and tram stops are indicated.
Educator: - Children, look what they sent us. This is the invitation, let's read it:
My dear friends!
I invite you to my birthday!
Drive to my house
you can on city
public transport.
Don't forget about the traffic rules!
Your friend Owl.
Guys, what is “urban public transport”?
Children: People use this transport.
Educator: Yes, guys, public transport is a technical means of transporting people within the city and outside the city, which are under state (departmental) subordination.
What about public transport?
Children: Bus, trolleybus.
Educator: Yes, and we also forgot the tram and metro. These are all urban public transport. Look at the picture and guess what kind of transport is superfluous here?
Children: Airplane, ship and car.
Educator: That's right, now name the remaining species.
Children: Tram, bus, trolley and metro.
Educator: Now I will ask you a riddle, listen:
The house goes down the street
Everyone is lucky to work,
Not on thin chicken legs,
And in rubber boots.
Children: Bus.
Educator: Oh, guys, look who is this? It's a donkey. What are you embarrassed and upset about? Tell me, donkey, what happened to you?
Once in a big and noisy city,
I was confused, I was lost ...
Not knowing the traffic lights
I almost got hit by a car!
Around cars and trams,
Then suddenly the bus is on the way.
To be honest, I don't know
How can I cross the road.
Guys, can you help me,
And, if possible, tell us
How can I get to the bus,
And the path to go with you.
I'm in a hurry for my birthday
Congratulate the wise Owl.
Educator:
If you are going to visit
To the zoo or to the cinema
Make friends with this sign
You have to do it all the same.
You won't get there without it
Neither the bus nor the tram!
So, you will go on foot ...
Guess the road sign!
Children: Public transport stop.
Educator: Yes, we will wait for the bus at this stop. Guys, how do you get on the bus?
Children: You need to get on the bus through back door, and exit through the front.
Educator: Well done, let's go.
Now we are on the bus, look at the crossword puzzle here. Let us solve it.
Crossword.
1. Our friend is right there
He will finish everyone in five minutes.
Hey sit down, don't yawn
Go ………………
2. Place of the carriageway,
where to go
the street.
3. Knows firmly children -
on the road, by the road
prohibited ………… ...
4. "Bagel" of the car.
5. Houses stand in two rows,
10,20,100 in a row
AND square eyes
They look at each other.
6. The man behind the wheel.
7. Fee for violation
Road traffic regulations.
8. What a miracle blue house
The windows are glowing all around
Wears rubber shoes
And it feeds on gasoline.
9. I blink my eyes
Relentlessly night and day
I help cars
And I want to help you.
10. Type of road surface.
11. A strip of land is part of a road.
12. Two brothers run away,
The two are catching up.
Crossword answers:
1. Tram. 2. Transition. 3. The game. 4. The steering wheel. 5. Street. 6. Driver.
7. Penalty. 8. Bus. 9. Traffic light. 10. Crushed stone. 11. Roadside.
12. Wheels.
(children, together with the teacher, solve the crossword puzzle)
Well done. And look, what word did we get?
Children: The traffic controller.
(a policeman comes out - traffic controller)
Policeman - traffic controller:
Policeman's post
It is very important and not easy.
Who makes sure that everything is on the way
They knew how to behave!
Educator: Do the guys know how to behave on the streets of the city? Tell me how to get around the bus and trolleybus?
Children: The bus and trolleybus must be bypassed from behind so that you can see the cars.
What is, guess:
Not a bus, not a tram.
Doesn't need gasoline
At least the wheels are on rubber.
Children: Trolleybus.
Educator: But before we sit down, let's remember the rules of conduct in public transport.
1. After landing, go ahead, do not linger on the steps and on the landing near the doors.
2. Don't distract the driver.
3. In the cabin, hold on to the handrails, do not interfere with the passage of passengers, prepare in advance to exit.
4. When exiting, do not fuss or push.
In the meantime, we are going with you, we will have a little rest. (physical minute)
Trolleybus, trolleybus is running, buzzing. (children run in place)
The chauffeur sits in this trolleybus. (portrayed as driving)
The trolleybus, the trolleybus is full of children (tilts)
Let's go, the children are looking out the window. (showing the window with their hands).
(guys get off the trolley)
Educator:
Outside the window early
Knock and ringing and confusion.
On straight steel tracks
There are blue houses.
Children: Tram.
Educator: Look Winnie - Pooh. Let's ask where he is going.
Winnie the Pooh:
"I'm waiting for you on the name day, -
Owl wrote to me, -
Get on the tram, you will get there right away,
Just remember, don't yawn
Follow the rules! "
Educator: The guys and I are also going to the good Owl, we will go together. Only for some reason our tram does not run. Tell me guys, what is missing in our tram?
Children: The tram has no arcs.
Educator: Right, guys, the tram and trolleybus are powered by electricity using wires stretched over the road. But if the arcs with which the trolleybus clings to the wires are similar to the antennae of a butterfly or horns, then the arc of the tram resembles a bent hand with which it firmly holds an electric wire. Inside the tram, like the trolleybus and bus, the same rows of seats and handrails are the same to hold onto.
Guys, what is the difference between a tram and a trolleybus?
Children: A tram can consist of several cars, and a trolley bus is one.
Educator: The trolleybus has rubber tires, but the tram?
Children: At the tram they are made of iron, that's why they knock on the rails so loudly.
Educator: So we arrived, children, but how should you bypass the tram?
Children: The tram must be bypassed in front.
Educator: Look, the Owl is already waiting for us. Let us congratulate her in unison.
(Congratulations to Owl in unison).
Owl: Thank you kids, how glad I am that you got to me. And on what did you get to me?
Children: By bus, trolleybus, tram.
Owl: Listen and guess what kind of public urban transport we are talking about:
The lights are burning underground.
Palaces stand underground.
A miracle rushes under the earth.
Sit down and you can ride.
Children: Metro.
Owl: Right. What new have you learned about urban public transport today?
(children's answers are heard)
These traffic rules
Obey without a doubt.
You, my friend, trust them
You will be safe and sound!
(At the end of the lesson, a tea party is organized, during which games on traffic rules are held).
Annex 1
ROAD RULES GAMES.
1. The game "TRAM"
Children stand along the wall of the room or the side of the platform in a column in pairs, holding each other's hand. With their free hand, they hold on to a cord, the ends of which are tied (one child is held with his right hand, the other with his left). The teacher is in one of the corners of the room and holds in his hand three colored flags - yellow, green, red. The teacher raises the green flag - the children are running - "driving". Having reached the teacher, they look, if the color has changed, the movement of the children changes.
If there are a lot of people interested, you can make a stop where the children sit and wait for the tram to arrive. Approaching a stop, it slows down and stops, some passengers get out, others come in. The teacher raises the green flag: "Let's go!"
You can replace the tram with a bus or trolleybus.
2. STOP game
At a distance of 10-16 steps from the border of the site, a line (initial) is drawn, on which the players stand close to each other. At the opposite end of the site, the place of the driver is outlined in a circle (with a diameter of 2-3 steps). Turning his back to the players, the driver says loudly: “Walk fast, don't yawn! Stop!". With these words, all the players move towards the leader. As soon as the driver said the word "Stop!", Everyone stops, the driver quickly looks around. The one who did not have time to stop in time after the word "Stop!" and made an additional movement, the driver returns to the original line. Then he again turns his back to the players and says: "Step quickly ..." and so on. Everyone continues to move from the place where they were caught by the stop signal. Those that have returned to the starting line start moving from there.
This continues until one of the players comes close to the driver and stands in the circle before the driver says "stop!" The one who managed to do this becomes the driver.
3. COLORED CARS game
Children are placed along the wall of the room or along the edge of the playground. They are cars. Each of the players is given a flag of any color (optional) or a colored circle, a ring. The teacher stands facing the players in the center of the room (playground). He holds three colored flags in his hand. The teacher raises a flag of some color. All children with a flag of this color run across the playground (in any direction), they hum as they go, imitating a car. When the teacher lowers the flag, the children stop and each head to his garage. Then the teacher raises a flag of a different color and the game resumes.
The caregiver can raise one, two, or all three flags together, and then all cars leave their garages.
If the children do not see that the flag is down, the teacher complements the visual signal with the words: "The cars (names the color) have stopped."
The teacher can replace the color signal with a verbal one (for example: "Blue cars are leaving," "Blue cars are returning home").
Appendix 2
Riddles about the road order.
1. The house goes down the street,
Everyone is lucky to work,
Not on thin chicken legs,
And in rubber boots.
(bus)
2. What is, guess:
Not a bus, not a tram,
Doesn't need gasoline
At least the wheels are on rubber.
(trolleybus)
3. Our friend is right there
He will finish everyone in five minutes.
Hey sit down, don't yawn
Heading off ………….
(tram)
4. Underground lights are on.
Palaces stand underground.
A miracle rushes underground.
Sit down and you can ride.
Appendix 3
FAIRY TALE
"What is a trolleybus and a tram for?
hold on to the wires with your "hands"? "
Early in the morning a trolleybus was driving through the city. I held on with my long "arms" - rods to the wires that stretched over the street, and rode. I was in a hurry. Apparently, he was afraid that people would be late because of him for work. I wanted to, I could even overtake passing cars. But the trolleybus stopped every now and then - to drop some passengers, to take others with them, and therefore lagged behind everyone.
Suddenly, something rattled on its roof, immediately a bell flooded in the driver's cab, and the trolleybus stopped in the middle of the road.
Why aren't we going? - the passengers were worried, glancing at their watches.
The boom jumped off the wires, said the driver. - Nothing, citizens, do not worry, please, I will quickly fix everything!
He opened the automatic door, went out into the street, untied the rope behind his car, pulled the trolleybus "arm" that had jumped to the side with it, again pressed it to the wire, got behind the wheel and rolled on.
The trolleybus must always hold on to the wires with its “hands”. At least one wire will let go - and not from a place. In this it is no different from a table lamp. She also needs two wires to shine. If one breaks, the lamp will go out.
In the lamp, the electric current heats up the spiral hair, and here it makes the electric motor work, which turns the wheels of the trolleybus.
The tram also holds onto the wire, but with one single "hand" - the arc for one single wire. The tram has no second. How so? And so. After all, he has rails. Having worked its way out in the motor, the current goes into the rails, and through them - into the ground.
Tram and trolleybus are two siblings. One is older, the other is younger. I have been a tram for over a hundred years. It's electric. Before the electric one, people were transported by another tram.
Rails ran along the street. Between them the horses in harness ran at a trot and pulled the trailer behind them. Isn't it a tram? A real horse tram. And his name was appropriate - horse.
Electricity was invented - the tram was given an electric motor. Horses - to the stable, to the trailer - an electric motor - and let's go! The carriage rolled and rumbled at full speed on steel rails with steel wheels. On a sharp turn tram wheels rattled all over the area.
The younger brother of the tram is much quieter, much quieter. Rubber wheels run on the smooth asphalt a little rustling: shh-shh.
A tram breaks down - a long line of other trams lines up behind it. Where you go - there is only one way, and that one is busy! And if the trolleybus breaks down, the driver immediately presses both of its rods to the roof, yielding to others: they say, go through, go through, I’m not a hindrance to you!
But the tram still doesn't want to give up:
Ah, don't you like my noisy disposition? Well, I'll put rubber clothes on the most thundering parts - I will ride without a rumble!
Oh, you don't like my unprepossessing appearance - I'll dress up more smartly!
Oh, you didn't like my hard seats? Get others - soft, with a comfortable back!
And it rolls itself, fast, quiet, beautiful, through the streets to the delight of numerous passengers.
All attention is focused on the new tram model 71-931M "Vityaz-M", which today, on March 17, departed on route No. 17 "Ostankino - Medvedkovo". I found out about this today in the news on the Internet. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin, opened the route from the Bauman depot. And the day before, the mayor opened three new metro stations on the yellow line: Minskaya, Lomonosovsky Prospekt and Ramenki. Let's go back to the tram.
1.
This model consists of three carriages with six entrance doors. There is an air conditioning system.
3.
For Internet addicts, USB charging ports were created, with a nominal value of 1 and 2.1 amperes. They are located in the wall under the feet. Wi-Fi is also present.
4.
A wise and correct decision.
5.
Horror stories with smiles and a sad suitcase with a warning.
6.
In the middle of the two seats, a mini-tram control unit is hidden, as if riding backwards to front. Such ones have existed in Germany for a long time and tram drivers enjoy great success.
7.
The salon is designed for more than 265 people, seated - 60. There is a special place for prams and people with limited mobility. Built-in TV with programs from "Transport TV" tells news and novelties on Moscow transports. It also shows the tram route from stop A to stop B with distance. And the speed of the tram is indicated.
8.
There is such a nice lighting under the seats, one blue, the other green.
9.
They even installed stopcocks.
10.
We took care of the emergency hammers. Now they will definitely not be stolen.
11.
Familiar door opening system. So far, they are now controlled directly by the tram driver. And a little later they will move on to the passengers.
12.
The muzzle of the tram is more reminiscent of the geometry of the "ant" and elongated rear-view mirrors.
13.
It seems a competitor has appeared.
14.
The owner of the model is PK - Transport Systems LLC, and the manufacturer is TVZ - Tver Carriage Works.
15.
The tram was first presented at the Moscow exhibition "ExpoCityTrans" in 2016. Learn more about this model
Some people do not know, or do not want to believe, that the tram is the best form of public transport in the world. "Trams are noisy, slow, and cannot avoid traffic jams!" they say. Such people can be given a bunch of arguments about the fact that modern tram systems have solved all these problems, talk about the advantages of modern rail transport, that the tram is cute and beautiful. Or you can just show them a tram in the Spanish city of Bilbao, and then all their doubts will disappear at once.
I have seen many different trams in the world, but I have never seen such a beautiful one anywhere!
The Bilbao tram was launched in 2002 as an alternative to the city metro. The authorities wanted to give tourists the opportunity to look at the city from the window while they commute between the most famous landmarks. But locals also love their tram, and often prefer to use it to travel from one part of the city to another. Well, how can you not love him ?!
Now there is one branch, consisting of 12 stops. Expansion of the system is planned - the line continues, two additional stops are already under construction.
The fare is € 1.15, which is quite inexpensive by European standards.
But these are dry facts that in no way reflect all the charm of the Bilbao tram! His main merit is what he walks on.
See? This is a glade with the greenest soft grass and chamomiles. You will not find such beauty in every park.
And in Bilbao, a tram runs along this beauty, and at the same time does not crumple a blade of grass!
This is one of the main advantages of a properly made tram system - the ability to lay rails in green areas, right on the grass! Look how beautiful it is!
The green tram fits very harmoniously into this green environment. These colors are pleasing to the eye. The rails meander along a row of beautiful trees. In Bilbao, a narrow gauge system is used, the gauge here is 1000mm.
The rails run along the river. The green lane along which they walk complements the lovely public waterfront area. There are comfortable benches, shady trees, a lawn with daisies and a tram, a bike path, a sidewalk, and only then - parked cars and a roadway.
Yes, the tram is closer to the water than the bike path! That's right, let the passengers of the tram look out the window and admire the water.
The platforms are protected from rain and sun by a canopy. There are ticket machines and monitors showing how long to wait for the next tram. The platforms are not high to make it easier to drive in with a stroller or wheelchair (of course, they are equipped with ramps.)
Trams run quite often, every five minutes. Many locals have travel cards, others buy tickets on the spot.
Tram cars are low-floor, from a low platform the carriage can be easily rolled inward. One of the main advantages of rail transport is the ability to always accurately approach the platform without unnecessary maneuvers.
And here is what the interior looks like from the inside. (I advise you to watch this video without sound, there is only noise, and nothing useful.)
Trams run very quietly, do not rattle like the Moscow tram of my childhood. No other form of transport can glide so neatly over a clearing of daisies without causing them any harm. This is its main advantage! And since there is no other transport here, there is no need to go around.
To cross the rails, a special tiled path has been made. A little further you can see the next one - several tens of meters between them.
Where there is no place to make a separate green zone, the tram receives a dedicated lane, for example, as on this bridge over the Nervion River, where the roadway is paved, and the tram rails were decided to be laid on beautiful paving stones.
The tram also runs along the banks of Nervion from the side of the old town, where its modern carriages look great against the backdrop of beautiful old buildings. The tram's operating hours are from 6 am to 11:30 pm.
All trains consist of three sections, 25 meters long. The tram's capacity is 192 seats, of which 50 are seated. These cars are manufactured by CAF, which is located right here in the Basque Country.
One small flaw trams in Bilbao, this is that they are often completely covered with advertisements, which do not always fit the tram itself, and the beautiful places through which it goes.
The Bilbao tram line is a great example of how beautiful and convenient public transport can be if you approach the issue wisely. Of course, it's not easy to do as good as in Bilbao - even the Japanese who are obsessed with rail transport when it comes to trams.
But the Bilbao tram is the standard of what a tram can and should be. If someone ever tells you that the tram is a transport of the past, which has no place in modern cities, feel free to show him this post.
Who can say that the Bilbao tram is not the most beautiful in the world can safely throw a note at me!
It's hard to believe, but!
