Electric Trams on the roads of Kolkata

Public transportation on the roads of Kolkata. Trams, buses, taxis, rickshaws and other modes of road transport on roads of Kolkata.
Kolkata is the only city in India to have a tram network. Trams are under the administration of the Calcutta Tramways Company, a government of West Bengal Undertaking, popularly called CTC. The trams are claimed to slow down other traffic, leading to groups who currently voice abolishing the trams. The environment-friendliness and the old charm of the trams attract many people. The tram lines laid in some major roads are being renovated to maintain the tram lines on the same level plane as the rest of the road, thereby smoothening the road. In places, the original central boulevards reserved only for the trams have been removed; the tram-lines are thus brought in the same plane as that of the road. The usable space of the road for vehicle movement has thereby considerably increased. With embedding of tram tracks in the road surface, the overall surface has become smoother, easing the traffic to some extent.
Source: Wikipedia
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[@metropolitantransit7276]

The trams can go the same speed as cars if the motors were upgraded and some tracks must be reserved for trams only than letting cars on the tracks. This can be done in major 6 lane roads. Where 4 lanes are used by cars and 2 lanes by trams and government buses only (temporary).

[@SoumyaChowdhury24081995]

Correct

[@bigsmoke1553]

Well, trams are supposed to be slow

[@metropolitantransit7276]

Trams can also go fast if better upgraded. These trams don't have speed control.

[@dipalichaudhuri2571]

It is painful that Trams are being weeded out.Trams will very soon become nostalgia.

[@BeHappy-lp8tg]

City is too good, british era. But trams are very antique looking.

[@vivekarunachalam22]

How can it be 1967 I see Tata Sumo and Mahindra Scropio and Suzuki swift

[@sanjeet.bhattacharjee.6657]

2010,2011 hoga.

[@ssvlog1984]

city of joy

[@govindaprasadtulasi3810]

Kolkata songe balobasa korbo

[@aniketshaw938]

Small train on roads tracks

[@jigneshpatel-zy5bx]

Awesome

[@musicpes]

2010

[@jogehlala9018]

new tram chalna chahiye

[@jogehlala9018]

sab se accha hai uk me tram

[@SAM-jf2yr]

look at the condition of public transport.........like very very poor country

[@YPR4022]

SAM that was british era public trandport....

[@SK111.]

it's just one part ass hole, india is a rich country not a poor country, the tram is still kept as a memory, see gurgaon and other cities blind man, don't simply bark "poor country "

[@disciple678]

@@SK111. Try to accept the truth.

[@otoiotoi5595]

1967