Traffic
In 2011, 66.5 million journeys were made on the tramway system, where a journey is defined as a single boarding on a single vehicle. Of these, 28.7 million were on line 1, 19.1 million on line 2 and 18.7 million on line 3. On a typical weekday during the school term in 2011, approximately 266.300 journeys were made on the network, with 111.400 journeys a day on line 1, 82.000 on line 2 and 73.900 on line 3.
In providing this service, the cumulative distance travelled by the tram fleet in 2007 was approximately 4.5 million kilometers.
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