The Rabat tramway will serve other areas of the conurbation

After one year of operation, the Rabat tramway has demonstrated its effectiveness. In one year, the number of passengers has doubled to reach 80,000 per day with 10,000 subscribers, 50% of whom are students. A satisfactory balance sheet that testifies to the usefulness of this mode of transport, notably its impact on the chronic congestion of certain strategic arteries of the capital. Today, this means of transport has become the new daily partner of the R'batis. A success that has pushed the management of the Rabat-Salé Tramway Company (STRS) to look into the study of opportunities to serve other neighbourhoods. And this, via the extension of new Tram lines, as affirmed by Loubna Boutaleb, director of the STRS, in a statement to the press: "studies for the extension of the Rabat-Salé tramway network to other neighbourhoods will be launched shortly to serve more populated areas". Techni…