There is a quiet but determined move to do away with whatever is left of the tram services. Over the past few months, high-level meetings involving senior bureaucrats have been held to work out how to bring the curtains down on the 143-year-old mode of city transport. But a senior transport department official told HT, “The state transport department has already taken several initiatives giving clear hints that that the government is eager to discontinue tram services. The transport department has recently stopped tram services in many routes through Chitpur Road as well as Rabindra Sarani. Interestingly, this is the route in front of the Tagore’s Jorasanko residence where electric tram services began in 1903.

Source: Hindustan Times September 18, 2016 08:48 UTC