Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Besançon Tram network dated back to a horse tram service inaugurated in 1887. Two tramlines using electric power entered service in 1897, joined later by (probably four) more. However, the system, which used only single tracks for its two lines, was badly damaged during the Second World War from which its finances also emerged in a parlous condition. In 1952, the operation having run out of funding possibilities, the Besançon trams were withdrawn: a city bus service was inaugurated in December 1952.Following a widely endorsed decision by the city authorities taken in 2005, a new publicly financed two route tram network opened, formally at the end of August 2014, serving the now much enlarged Besançon conglomeration. Although officially organised into two routes, for most of their length the two routes operate on the same track. Another line is scheduled to enter service in 2025."@en }
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- Trams_in_Besançon abstract "The Besançon Tram network dated back to a horse tram service inaugurated in 1887. Two tramlines using electric power entered service in 1897, joined later by (probably four) more. However, the system, which used only single tracks for its two lines, was badly damaged during the Second World War from which its finances also emerged in a parlous condition. In 1952, the operation having run out of funding possibilities, the Besançon trams were withdrawn: a city bus service was inaugurated in December 1952.Following a widely endorsed decision by the city authorities taken in 2005, a new publicly financed two route tram network opened, formally at the end of August 2014, serving the now much enlarged Besançon conglomeration. Although officially organised into two routes, for most of their length the two routes operate on the same track. Another line is scheduled to enter service in 2025.".