Today I was reading about the return of Paris' tram on the streets after seventy years. Paris citizens, without any doubt, are looking forward to that, finally it does not mean just another transport means in the city but also a far more silent means plus less pollution. Wonderful… bravo, Paris!!
The Ljubljana city heads could also reconsider this option, to bring back the tram to our streets. It is quite impossible to move around by car in the town and moreover, you might be left waiting for the bus for a half an hour or more in the rush hours which makes city life impossible, and so Ljubljana really needs a solution for that.
I wonder who wouldn't want the tram back… the tram that used to slide across white Ljubljana?
It was in September 1901 when the tram drove away for the first time in our capital and used to drive till after WWII. Then it was replaced by trolleybus and by an ever increasing number of cars. What a pity! Ljubljana definitely lost some charm by taking it away. If we just have a look at the fact of how many European cities still run on tram, Vienna – Rome – London, mentioning only few of them… The truth is that those cities are huge capitals in which the public transport is used by a great amount of people, indeed.  But yet, if we replaced the bus by tram in Ljubljana's city centre, we would relieve it of a load of traffic and contribute to better atmosphere as well.
The Community of Ljubljana would better invest its money in reestablishment of tram line instead of senseless cable railway to Ljubljana's Castle – the citizens would definitely have more benefit from that.
In the past few years the old-timer trams of Ljubljana are being restored, furthermore an exposition for public is to be expected, too. By all means an appreciative thing towards preserving some relics of the past for the generations to come.