Fast, clean and good value, the trams benefit from smart 'green wave' priority at traffic signals, which allows them to keep a constant high commercial speed. Three city tram lines, numbered 042 to 044, each offer basic 15-minute headways. Even better is route 041, which offers a tram every ten minutes. During rush hours, extra trams are at work. Though Krefeld also has a 25-route bus network, for which 90 buses are available, trams remain as the backbone of the city's public transport, which carries an annual 33 million passengers.
Trams are very popular, they are everywhere.
The tram is what most people want. Short walking distances, simple and reliable service. Sober-minded, industrious Krefeld is not the place where people are waiting for experiments. The population as a whole has always been satisfied with the tram, and they simply want to keep it in its existing form. The basic pattern of the tramway system has been the same, despite a few extensions, for decades.