One of the various trams in Montpellier. Montpellier is a French town on the Mediterranean coast, 200 km. from the Spanish border and 700 km. Zaragoza. Its metropolitan area is 400,000 people, half in the municipality. It has a major university, attracting Spanish Erasmus, like Bordeaux or Toulouse. The city has an elegant and lively historic center around a small rise over the rest of the city, between Place de la Comedie and a small park, characteristic of three French cities sights and so scarce in Spain, I guess because the parks are not commercial or aparcables or especulables. Montpellier was an early riser when removing the tram, in 1949, and to no less than 46 years later, there was decided to rentrée. Line 1 was inaugurated in July 2002 between Mosson and Odisseum, with a distance of 15.2 km. served by 28 trams of type TGA Citadis 301, being so successful that it was necessary to acquire, almost immediately, 2 vehicles. Also given the modularity of these vehicles had to be lengthened from 30 to 40.5 meters. Involved the pedestrianization of the whole city center, making a very significant work even so high to cross the mall Antigone, in the heart of the city but with components of hypermarket, and let expedite the Comedie Square, central nucleus of the city and through which the line 1. Line 2 was inaugurated in December 2006 between Saint Jean de Vedas and Jacou, and a curious feature is that against the blue line 1, this line takes about vehicles so colorful painted flowers representing one of its Typical productions. Without departing from the center, maintains a transverse trace more than the first. In the year 2012, is scheduled to open on line 3 of 22.4 km. and will reach the beach area. The data provided in 2007 by the company operating spoken of 53.8 million passengers, without specifying which party is by tram, and a fleet of 175 buses, although they speak of a daily use of 130,000 people in the tram line 1 , which would be above 30 million passengers per year, which would not be surprised by the personal experience I had when visiting this city in September 2007.