The Sidi Bel Abbès Tramway ( ar, ترامواي سيدي بلعباس) is a system of

public transport Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typic ...

Sidi Bel Abbès Sidi Bel Abbès ( ar, سيدي بلعباس), also called Bel Abbès, is the capital (2005 pop. 200,000)''Sidi Bel Abbes'', lexicorient.com (Encyclopaedia of the Orient), internet article. of the Sidi Bel Abbès wilaya (2005 pop. 590,000), Alger ...

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. The first section includes of route and 22 stops.

History

The construction of the line was commissioned to the Turkish company Yapi Merkezi and its subcontractor ENGIE. On 22 June 2013, the Algerian Minister of Transport, Amar Tou, announced the start of work on the network. The first of the 30

Alstom Citadis The Alstom Citadis is a family of low-floor trams and light rail vehicles built by Alstom. , over 2,300 Citadis trams have been sold and 1,800 tramways are in revenue service throughout the world, with operations in all six inhabited continent ...

402 type trams, assembled by the

Annaba Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse Ri ...

-based Cital, was delivered to Sidi Bel Abbès on 8 April 2016. The line was inaugurated on 25 July 2017.

References

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