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It's called "TramTrain"

At least they made the "U" sign yellow 😅 (the original U-Bahn sign is White with a blue background)

I mean that can be said about almost any bigger german city, they really like to mix ubahn,sbahn, snd trams together

This trains are really bad !!!

Thank god. More tagging spots

Agree, Karlsruhe's stations are super boring and uniform. I think it's a detrimental factor when the stations are only identifiable by name. Berlin's U5 extension has shown how to do appealing new stations.

Theyre still very clean and well maintained!!

SMASH SEXISM !!!

Its a hommage to the AVG´s (Albtal-Verkehrsgesellschaft) 70s design, which was yellow/green, the second operator (of our S-Bahn lines, except S2) in Karlsruhe.

@@bijantari3078 Oh well thanks !!

Not really, light rail have bigger capacity and in Karlsruhe it travels also far in to the suburbs

Absolutely not, construction cost is not much less than a light rail system, because you still have to provide infrastructure to operate a proper BRT system (own lanes, stops etc.). The operation costs are much higher on a bus system, because you need more drivers per passenger in comparison to light rail systems and rail vehicles are more durable in general. The cost overhead of a rail system is still there, but not that huge. In the timespan of a few years a rail system has economically outperformed a BRT system. German cities are aware of this: Politicians in a lot of german cities want their tram systems back, and barely any BRT systems are planned because of the economic factors. If you have very limited money to invest, BRT still might be a choice for your city. And of course, Busses outside of BRT systems are way less costly than Rail systems, but also provide poor capacity.