Since the 10 last years, every city in France and probably elsewhere, want to have a tram.
Very big urban development and infrastructure construction is made to get it or get it back after having removed it for a long period due to the increase of automobile traffic like Marseille, Rennes, Bordeaux...
In St Etienne, France, our tram line has been running without interruption since the begining in 1881, it's the France oldest line
I remember the old tram which operated untill 1991, it looked like that:
(Photos from :
http://leportailferroviaire.free.fr/urbain/stevie.htm)
here is since 1991:
(My photos)