{"id":15181,"date":"2016-05-13T06:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T10:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15181"},"modified":"2016-05-13T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T11:42:11","slug":"strasbourg-10-photos-of-low-floor-trams-in-sophisticated-european-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/strasbourg-10-photos-of-low-floor-trams-in-sophisticated-european-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasbourg: 10 photos of Low Floor Trams in a Sophisticated European City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Strasbourg_Tram_P1440893\"<\/a>It was a pleasantly warm Spring day when I set out with Lumix LX7 in hand to make a few photos of the Strasbourg trams.<\/p>\n

Strasbourg was among the first French cities to re-adopt the electric tram, and in 1994 introduced an elegant modern tram system using a pioneer type of low-floor car (the first batch were\u00a0\u00a0built by ABB) called the Eurotram.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to visit Strasbourg for a long time, but only recently managed to finally get there.<\/p>\n

Any favorites from this selection?<\/p>\n

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Among my first views of the Strasbourg tram system. Notice the rail-mounted cleaning truck in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Contrast of old and new.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Like with many modern tram systems, in Strasbourg you must validate your paper ticket before boarding the car. I noted teams of fare enforcement specialists intimidating non-paying passengers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Strasbourg offers many places to include the trams in attractive cityscapes such as this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A few of the cars were painted in this lime, red and white livery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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  It was a pleasantly warm Spring day when I set out with Lumix LX7 in hand to make a few photos of the Strasbourg trams. Strasbourg was among the first French cities to re-adopt the electric tram, and in 1994 introduced an elegant modern tram system using a pioneer type of low-floor car (the … Continue reading Strasbourg: 10 photos of Low Floor Trams in a Sophisticated European City<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3786,3524,2333,3523,24,3525],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Strasbourg_Tram_P1440948.jpg?fit=2448%2C1634","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-3WR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15184,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181\/revisions\/15184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}